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SaaS products based on LLM APIs have two typical forms of runaway cost: the runaway script user (scripted calls or client-side retry loops causing a single account to burn a large amount of money overnight) and the silent loss-making account (a low-paying customer sending an extremely long context, with token cost far exceeding what they pay).
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