// Hacker Noon · 25 March 2026

LLM Features Need Budgets: How to Control Cost Without Killing Product Quality

Every request has a visible marginal cost. A feature can be “working” and still be failing in production because it is quietly burning budget, retried into a spend spike, or expanding prompts until latency and cost both drift upward. The goal is to preserve trust while keeping spend predictable.

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