Your tests can make 66,000 paid LLM calls a month before your first user

You wrote tests for your LLM feature, and they call the real model, because that feels like the honest way to test it. Say there are 100 of them, one call each, and the suite runs 30 times a working day: locally while you work, and again on every push. That's 66,000 paid calls a month.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/altrouter/your-tests-can-make-66000-paid-llm-calls-a-month-before-your-first-user-1i2i)