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| Agent cost optimization is the discipline of managing token economics, inference costs, and compute budgets for production LLM agent systems. Agents make 3-10x more LLM calls than simple chatbots --- a single user request can trigger planning, tool selection, execution, verification, | Agent cost optimization is the discipline of managing token economics, inference costs, and compute budgets for production LLM agent systems. Agents make 3-10x more LLM calls than simple chatbots --- a single user request can trigger planning, tool selection, execution, verification, | ||
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| + | graph TD | ||
| + | A[User Query] --> B{Model Router} | ||
| + | B --> | ||
| + | B --> | ||
| + | C --> E{Cache Hit?} | ||
| + | D --> E | ||
| + | E -->|Yes| F[Return Cached Response] | ||
| + | E -->|No| G[Prompt Compression] | ||
| + | G --> H[Execute LLM Call] | ||
| + | H --> I[Track Costs] | ||
| + | I --> J[Response] | ||
| + | </ | ||
| ===== The Real Cost Structure ===== | ===== The Real Cost Structure ===== | ||