Kestrel
Commerce
2.1M SKUs in 9 days
SKUs classified in nine days
Kestrel had a quarter budgeted for product descriptions. Batch pricing turned it into a sprint.
The problem
2.1 million SKUs needed descriptions. At real-time pricing on a frontier model the projection was $61,000 and most of a quarter, because rate limits capped throughput.
What they did
They moved the whole job to the batch endpoint on orbit-mini, with an eval suite gating output before anything reached the catalogue.
What changed
40 million tokens a day for nine days, at 99.98% availability. Final cost $18,400. The eval suite rejected 2.7% of descriptions, which went to atlas-70b on a second pass.
Batch turned a quarter-long project into a sprint, and the eval gate meant we never had to read all two million of them.
Iain Faulkner
Director of Engineering, Kestrel
By the numbers
$61,000 projected, $18,400 actual
40M tokens a day
2.7% sent for a second pass
1M tokens a month, free forever.
No card, no trial clock, no sales call. Move to a paid plan when the invoice makes sense, or don’t.