How Semantic Routing and Caching Can Cut Enterprise LLM Spend by 50%
You receive your new AWS billing statement and it’s $47,000 as opposed to the $8,000 you were expecting. You did not modify the code. There was no increase in traffic. What you failed to remember is that for 30 consecutive days all queries (the “Hello, how are you?” ones and the “complex” ones) went through GPT-4. Automatically. Invisibly.
That's not a bug. This is a missing router.
Check that invoice again. FAQ lookups. Form field extraction. Greeting messages. All of those did not require GPT-4. They wanted something that was one-tenth the price and that would have yielded the same result. But no one set it up, so GPT-4 did everything, such as hiring a neurosurgeon to take your blood pressure.
Now, the pricing difference from the cheapest to the most capable LLM is 250x, and routing is no longer an option at enterprise scale — it's a difference between...
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