# Cost-aware prompting
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| GENCOST03: How do you engineer prompts to optimize cost? | 
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Prompts are engineered to optimize workloads cost as well as workload performance.

**Topics**
+ [GENCOST03-BP01 Optimize prompt token length](gencost03-bp01.md)
+ [GENCOST03-BP02 Control model response length](gencost03-bp02.md)
+ [GENCOST03-BP03 Implement prompt caching to reduce token costs](gencost03-bp03.md)
+ [GENCOST03-BP04 Annotate user input to enable cost-aware content filtering](gencost03-bp04.md)