Cutting Our Inference Bill by 68% by Being Obsessive About Optimization
Cloudflare, Monday, October 19th, 2026
Cloudflare cut the cost of its AI code reviewer by 68% to $0.77 per review while also speeding it up.
Cloudflare says the average cost of a review by its AI code reviewer rose from $1.19 in April to about $2.46 by late August without major architectural changes.
In mid-September it tasked agents with finding where tokens were going and cutting them aggressively.
Average review cost fell to $0.77, down 68%, and median review time dropped from 4m 09s to 1m 32s.
The post details the optimizations behind the savings.