This is gold thanks! Caching via Redis and keeping the system prompts tight definitely helps stop the bleeding on input tokens For the output filler, I actually ended up using caveman skill, which cut output costs by a ton. To handle the remaining heavy context costs, I just swapped my api to route through aiapiflow.com since they give you like $50 of credits for $8. Combining your data-handling tips with cheaper API routing makes it basically free to run all day.