Guides

Guides and explainers from TokenCost Lab.

November 8, 2026

How Much Does an AI Chatbot Cost to Run? GPT vs Claude vs Gemini

A worked example of the monthly API bill for a customer-support chatbot on OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, and the three levers that cut it the most.

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November 5, 2026

Prompt Caching Explained: Cut Your LLM Input Costs by Up to 90%

What prompt caching is, how OpenAI, Anthropic and Google price cached tokens, and how to structure prompts so the cache actually hits.

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