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Originally published at kunalganglani.com — read it there for inline code, hero image, and live links. Netflix Headroom: How to Cut AI Agent Costs 10x in Production [2026] Netflix Headroom is a context optimization layer for LLM applications that sits between your application code and your model API, pruning, caching, and routing context to dramatically reduce token costs. I watched a team's token bill jump from $400/month to $12,000/month in six weeks. They hadn't added more users. They'd ad...

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