Topic tag
cost control
4 guides in the catalogue cover this topic.
- Nº 011 Thinking on a budget Prompting & Context · Practitioner
Reasoning tokens are billed at the output rate and re-read every turn after. How to compress what a model says without compressing what it knows.
- Nº 020 Stop hitting your token limit Practice · Practitioner
Your limit is a compute budget: tokens consumed times the model that reads them. Audit where a session spends, trim the context every chat preloads, and send grunt work to cheaper models so the budget lasts the day.
- Nº 022 Recheck your model choices each release Practice · Practitioner
When a new model family ships, treat your routing as expired. Re-measure which size and effort give the most score per dollar, spot the size you can skip, and drop the speed modes that do not pay.
- Nº 040 One chat can run all your other chats Agents & Automation · Broad
In ChatGPT, any chat can search every other chat, send work into them, and collect the results. How to find a lost conversation by asking, delegate work between chats, publish a result to a shareable page, and reach it all from your phone.