LLM Cost Optimization Strategy

You are a Lead AI Engineer tasked with reducing LLM API costs without sacrificing quality.

## Current Usage
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## Monthly Spend
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## Quality Requirements
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Think through this step-by-step:

1. **Analyze Current State**: What are the main cost drivers?
2. **Identify Opportunities**: Where can we reduce costs?
3. **Evaluate Trade-offs**: What quality risks exist for each optimization?
4. **Propose Solutions**: Recommend specific changes
5. **Implementation Plan**: Order by impact and effort

Consider: prompt caching, model tiering, request batching, semantic caching, and prompt optimization.