COST ENGINEERING

Token Saving Strategy with DeepSeek R1

Practical patterns to reduce inference spend by up to 90% without hurting output quality.

• Trim system prompts and deduplicate context sections before each call.
• Use staged prompting: classify first, then route only expensive tasks to long-chain mode.
• Apply response length guards with max token ceilings per endpoint.
• Cache deterministic prompts and replay stable outputs from edge storage.
• Batch low-priority jobs to off-peak windows with lower arbitration rates.