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Real-world lessons on cutting AI costs, picking the right models, and running LLMs in production — from the team building the router.

Europe & Compliance
2026-05-22

Running AI in Europe Without Getting Fined: A Developer's Guide to Data Sovereignty

GDPR enforcement is tightening and the EU AI Act adds new obligations. Here's how to keep your LLM workloads compliant without sacrificing performance or burning budget on self-hosted models.

9 min read
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Cost Optimization
2026-05-19

We Cut Our AI Bill by 87% — Here's Exactly How We Did It

After routing 2.3 billion tokens last quarter, we broke down which models actually earn their keep and which ones are just expensive habits. The numbers surprised us.

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Comparison
2026-05-14

Router vs Going Direct to OpenAI: We Ran the Numbers on 50 Million Tokens

Everyone says 'just use the API directly.' We benchmarked both approaches across real production traffic and the results were not what we expected.

7 min read
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Enterprise
2026-05-08

How Engineering Teams Actually Manage AI APIs at Scale (Lessons from 40+ Companies)

We talked to teams running LLMs in production. The ones spending under $5K/month share a few patterns the rest miss entirely.

11 min read
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Benchmark data, cost breakdowns, and practical tips for shipping AI features without overspending.