been optimizing API costs across client projects this week
and the GPT 5.6 Luna price drop just changed everything. 80 percent cut to 20 cents per million tokens. thats insane
had 3 projects where we were routing around OpenAI because it was too expensive for high volume stuff. now reconsidering
went back and recalculated monthly burn for one client doing automated content gen. was paying around 400 a month on a cheaper model. with Luna at the new price it drops to like 80. same volume
crazy part is the quality didnt drop. Luna benchmarks are solid for what these clients need. summarization, classification, some code review stuff
spent last night swapping model names in the config and running the test suites. 2 of 3 passed clean. the third needs prompt tweaks because Luna formats things slightly differently
when a model drops 80 percent in price dont just read the news. go recalculate your actual costs. you might be surprised
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