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Practical notes for agentic model workflows.
Guides on OpenAI-compatible integration, model routing, token spend, long context, and building with above.dev.
30 Aug 2026
Agent sessions re-bill the same prompt on every tool call, so 80 to 95% of the bill is cached input. The cache-hit rate, not the headline input price, decides what a session costs.
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DeepSeek bills different rates by time of day, defined in Beijing time, with weekends entirely off-peak. Here is exactly when the cheap hours are in UTC and how to schedule batch work around them.
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Marketing pages quote percentages. Response headers quote dollars. How to audit any inference bill per request, and the headers above.dev exposes to make that trivial.
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