After doing these courses, I feel confident creating professional visualizations and dashboards
Shoebur RahmanProcurement Specialist, Giz Bangladesh
Course Description
Understand what drives the cost of every AI conversation, and build simple habits that get more out of your plan without giving up quality. No technical background required.
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Curriculum
Course outline
1
Understanding AI Costs
Tokens, Billing, and Why Costs Add Up Fast
You will understand what a token is, why and how AI bills per token (versus the subscription pricing you know), and the key insight that the AI re-reads the whole conversation every turn — so costs snowball as a thread grows and multiply when agents take steps.
The Different Types of Context
You will recognize what "context" actually is — the live conversation, attachments and files, standing instructions and memory, and connected tools — all of which sit in the AI's context window and get re-read every turn.
2
How to Spend Fewer Tokens
Manage Your Context Window
You will control what is in the context window so the AI re-reads less each turn — using fresh chats for new topics, summarize-and-restart for long ones, and including only what the task needs.
Use Tools Efficiently
You will use tools efficiently — turning off connectors a task does not need, invoking heavy modes and web search only when the task calls for them, and drafting in a light format before converting to a heavy one at the end.
Match the Model to the Task
You will match model size and reasoning effort to the task rather than defaulting to the biggest option, reserving the premium model for genuinely hard work.
Make Every Turn Count
You will make each turn earn its keep — being specific the first time, batching related questions, editing-and-regenerating instead of arguing, controlling output length, and stopping runaway answers.
Bring In Only What You Need
You will handle attachments and pasted content so you do not pay for material the task does not need, including a non-technical way to clean web content before pasting.
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Token Cost Management for Everyone
Course
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