Cloudflare's May 21, 2026 AI Gateway REST API change and the spend-limits documentation updated on June 5, 2026 turn LLM cost control into a live operational design problem, not something teams can leave to a month-end billing review.
OpenAIās current documentation draws a clear operational line between three kinds of AI work: cache-friendly interactive requests, long-running background jobs, and offline batch runs. If a team still pushes all of that through one synchronous path, it is usually paying more than necessary in latency, API cost, andę²»ē?