LLM Token Cost Benchmarking Across Major Providers
Advertised per-token prices hide the real costs that determine your LLM bill.
Marcus Delgado-Wirth
Staff Writer, Economics of AI
Marcus Delgado-Wirth
Marcus covered cloud cost optimization and FinOps for infrastructure-focused trade outlets for nearly a decade before joining Gateway & Ground, bringing a sharp analytical lens to questions of AI budget allocation and vendor economics. He has tracked hyperscaler pricing models since the early days of consumption-based cloud billing.
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Opaque Automatic Model Swapping Risks in LLM Routing Tools
Unannounced model swaps in routing layers hide costs, quality drops, and compliance risks.
Marcus Delgado-Wirth
Multi-Provider LLM Strategy for Mid-Market SaaS Companies
Intelligent request routing through a single gateway cuts LLM costs by 30 to 50 percent.
Marcus Delgado-Wirth
Prompt Caching Across LLM Providers at the Gateway Layer
A gateway layer can unify caching across providers with different implementations.
Marcus Delgado-Wirth
Provider Outage Handling and Uptime SLAs in Production LLM Systems
Vendor SLAs measure uptime, not whether your LLM system actually works.
Marcus Delgado-Wirth