Claude cost tutorials

Ten tutorials for cutting your Claude bill without switching providers.

Step-by-step self-audit using Anthropic's usage dashboard + count_tokens API

Five tactics, ranked by impact, that don't require switching providers

Back-of-envelope token math with real assumptions

Where caching saves, where it wastes, and what most teams get wrong

The real per-token + workflow differences when migrating

Three architectural patterns that cap your per-user cost

Why the default setup costs 5x what it should — and how to fix it

Four ways to ship less tokens without losing output quality

Retry-on-malformed is free code that bills you for your own brittleness

A decision rubric, not a vibe check