Claude Code Cost Control in Production: Token Budgets, Caching Strategies, and What the Billing Dashboard Hides This article was written with the assistance of AI, under human supervision and review. Most Claude Code cost overruns stem from invisible context accumulation and cache misses that the billing dashboard never surfaces. Production teams ship AI-powered features, watch token spend double month-over-month, and trace the issue to conversation histories that ballooned from 10k...