ZenLLM
How do you reduce OpenAI costs without breaking the product?
Start by attributing spend to workflows, customers, models, retries, and prompts. Then move low-complexity routes off premium defaults, remove retry churn, shorten repeated context, and validate savings against live traffic.
First checks
The fastest OpenAI savings usually come from workflow-level attribution.
Find premium-model routes that do not need premium reasoning.
Measure retry loops and failed calls as direct waste.
Compare prompt and context size by workflow before rewriting prompts.