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.

by /u/Competitive-Joke-40830 Sep 2026

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 Check what is actually published, not just saved (a saved but unpublished schedule kept the old version running).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/

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Agents
n8n
Tools
  • n8n executions

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