DigitalOcean Inference Router, Now Cache-Aware: Why the Cheapest Model Isn't Always the Best Deal
From the source: DigitalOcean BlogCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently posed the question every company scaling AI is asking: how do you keep spend flat while token usage grows exponentially? This isn’t hypothetical. It’s confronting companies across every sector: Uber exhausted its annual AI coding budget within the first four months of the year and subsequently introduced a $1,500 monthly limit per employee . Walmart placed…
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