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2026-09-12
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large-language-models
Why Our LLM Bill Hit $31k Instead of $12k (The 4 Production Traps No Pricing Page Shows)
An engineering team reported that its Q2 LLM infrastructure bill reached $31,000 against a $12,000 budget after running multi-turn agentic loops in production. The team attributed the overrun to four …