I Was Spending $47/Day on AI API Calls. One Flag Cut It to $4.

Last month I looked at my API bill and almost spit out my coffee. $1,400. Fourteen hundred dollars - for one month of AI API calls. And the worst part? I did it to myself. The Problem Nobody Talks About Here's what happened. I'm building an AI agent that handles content workflows - summarization, image generation, text-to-speech, video, the whole stack. When I wrote the code, I did what every developer does: const summary = await api. call ({ model: " claude-4-5-sonnet ", $3.00/1M tokens const image = await api. call ({ model: " flux-pro-1.1 ", $0.05/image const tts = await api.