Five Practical Tips to Save on AI Token Costs
Div_pradeep · x · 2026-07-09
The post shares how to optimize prompts when using large models to reduce Token consumption and lower costs. Key recommendations include providing specific, clear instructions rather than vague descriptions, and avoiding pasting entire codebases or long documents directly.
Additionally, it suggests summarizing long conversation histories before sending them, using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to extract relevant paragraphs, and caching repeated prompt requests.
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