Cloudflare cut its AI code reviewer's inference cost 68% through prompt caching and model tuning
Original titleCutting our inference bill by 68% by being obsessive about optimization
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Cloudflare says its AI code reviewer's average cost fell from $2.43 to $0.77 per review, while median review time dropped from 4m 09s to 1m 32s. The post attributes about 40% of the savings to changes in reviewer code and the rest to model and effort choices. It also reports that critical and warning findings fell, but that some real performance findings were lost at medium effort.
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The post breaks down where inference tokens went and which prompt caching and model changes cut cost, with quality checks alongside the savings.
Source: Cloudflare Blog · AI · blog.cloudflare.comPublished · added here