#ai cost optimization

Model distillation trains a brand-new small model to imitate a larger teacher model's outputs on one narrow task, so production runs on the cheap model instead of paying frontier prices for every call. Here is the actual mechanism, what OpenAI's Model Distillation feature and

Muhammad Qasim Hammad·August 27, 2026·11 min

The batch API is the same model and the same output at half the token price, as long as nobody is waiting on the response. Here is which jobs belong on batch, the reproducible cost math, how Anthropic and OpenAI differ, and the exact n8n submit-and-poll pattern.

Muhammad Qasim Hammad·July 13, 2026·9 min