COST OPTIMIZATION

Claude Fable 5's $10/$50 per million token pricing can catch teams off guard - here is how to build a real cost model before you commit.

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DeepSeek V4 is trending because it is close enough to frontier coding models at a much lower token price. The real question for developers is where cheap reasoning belongs in an agent stack.

11 min read

How to ship Claude's Batch API in production. 50% cost savings, TypeScript SDK code, JSONL request format, and the async architecture gotchas that bite at 100k requests.

12 min read

A production guide to Claude's extended thinking mode. Real cost math, TypeScript SDK code, and the tasks where reasoning tokens are worth 3x the spend.

11 min read

Cut Claude API spend by up to 90% with prompt caching. Real numbers, TypeScript SDK code, and the gotchas Anthropic's docs gloss over.