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title: "Storage and hosted tools: what the terms mean · Audon"
description: "Storage and hosted tools: Delete stored files, vector stores and caches nobody uses, and cap paid tool calls."
url: https://audon.ai/glossary/storage-and-hosted-tools
last_updated: 2026-11-02
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# Storage and hosted tools: what the terms mean

Delete stored files, vector stores and caches nobody uses, and cap paid tool calls.

Savings levers

## Storage and hosted tools

Delete stored files, vector stores and caches nobody uses, and cap paid tool calls. A savings lever in the group “Model providers”.

The fix is a setting an admin changes.

Audon sizes it on your own cost data with one stated assumption and writes it as a potential saving. Levers that touch the same spend are sized in order, so the amounts add up.

A change you mark as done is measured from billing; an approved experiment makes it a verified saving.

Used in [Agent Spend Optimization](https://audon.ai/product/agent-spend-optimization) · [How levers are sized](https://audon.ai/product/agent-spend-optimization#levers)

## Related terms.

- [Service tier

   Pay the fast or priority surcharge only where someone waits; run work nobody waits on at flex or batch rates.](https://audon.ai/glossary/service-tier)
- [Regional processing

   Drop the regional or US-only processing surcharge where no contract requires it.](https://audon.ai/glossary/regional-processing)
- [Model choice

   Move to a newer, cheaper version of the same model, or route simpler requests to a cheaper model.](https://audon.ai/glossary/model-choice)
- [Tests and evals

   Run tests, evals and CI on a cheaper model, a smaller sample or a nightly schedule.](https://audon.ai/glossary/tests-and-evals)
- [Context size

   Stop resending growing history and stay under long-context price thresholds.](https://audon.ai/glossary/context-size)
- [Output and reasoning

   Cap outputs and set reasoning effort per task, so you pay for the answer, not the padding.](https://audon.ai/glossary/output-and-reasoning)

[All terms](https://audon.ai/glossary)

Last updated 2 November 2026

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