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Capacity planning

Estimating **compute, tokens, and concurrency** needed to meet latency and cost targets at expected traffic.

#When to use

Before launches, contract renewals with LLM providers, and autoscaling configuration.

Guessing from a single happy-path demo — use load test data.

500 daily active users × 20 messages × 2k tokens ≈ monthly token budget + peak GPU instances.