Why your LLM bill is exploding — and how semantic caching can cut it by 73%

Source: VentureBeat

Overview

Our LLM API bill was growing 30% month-over-month. Traffic was increasing, but not that fast. When I analyzed our query logs, I found the real problem: Users ask the same questions in different ways.

“What’s your return policy?,” “How do I return something?”, and “Can I get a refund?” were all hitti…