Find which workflow is eating your LLM bill
Summing token use per n8n workflow showed one Reddit scout was 75% of a $58/month Claude bill; fixing it cut the bill to about $5.
Prompt for your agent
Goal: Cut LLM spend by measuring cost per workflow instead of per invoice. Setup: agents used in source: n8n; tools/MCPs stated: n8n executions. Steps: 1. Sum token usage from your own n8n executions per workflow and per model. 2. Find the workflow that dominates; check how often it actually runs. 3. Check what is actually published, not just saved (a saved but unpublished schedule kept the old version running). 4. Watch editor-assistant usage on the largest model; one day of it cost as much as a month of production. Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify. Note: The author found downgrading cheap workflows to a smaller model saved only about $1/month. Based on: /u/Competitive-Joke-408 — https://www.reddit.com/r/n8n/comments/1wu5xjg/one_workflow_was_75_of_my_llm_bill_how_i_measured/
Steps are from the source. Includes a “Based on” credit line.
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Agents, models and tools only what the source states
- Agents
- n8n
- Tools
- n8n executions
Sources & credit
- /u/Competitive-Joke-408 primaryReddit · 30 Sep 2026https://www.reddit.com/r/n8n/comments/1wu5xjg/one_workflow_was_75_of_my_llm_bill_how_i_measured/