Token economics: cutting AI costs

What you'll do

Tokens are pieces of text you pay for. In AshnaAI, retrieve a passage instead of pasting the book, and keep X1 as the default router.

This guide walks through reduce AI token cost in AshnaAI. You stay in chat. You do not need a separate desktop of buttons for each file job.

Before you start

Open AshnaAI and start a new chat.

How to reduce AI token cost

Follow the steps below in order. Confirm in chat before AshnaAI sends, posts, or writes to Tally.

Step 1. Read the definition

Tokens are pieces of text you pay for. In AshnaAI, retrieve a passage instead of pasting the book, and keep X1 as the default router.

Step 2. Open AshnaAI

Sign in at https://app.ashna.ai and start a chat, or open the agent builder.

Step 3. Try the job

Attach the file and ask a narrow question instead of pasting it.

Step 4. What to expect

Image and video artifacts have their own credit path.

Keep in mind

Image and video artifacts have their own credit path.

Related guides

Also read use ashna x1 instead of picking models yourself.

Also read chat with a pdf.

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Try it now

Open app.ashna.ai and run this job in a new chat. New accounts can start from app.ashna.ai/signup.