Most startup cloud bills hide 30–60% waste: oversized instances, zombie resources, unmanaged storage, and egress surprises. Here are the seven fixes we apply in cost audits, ordered by effort — most are done in a day each.
Most teams overpay for LLM APIs by 5-10x. Model routing, prompt caching, and batching cut the bill by 60-90% in the projects we've optimized — usually in under two weeks of work. Here are the six levers, ranked by effort.
