Probably this is a newbie question, but I wonder if the amount of information in the persona configuration could have an impact on the costs of LLM usage like Claude or OpenAI? I mean, if I upload many text and PDF files, will that cause a significant increase in the request tokens so that each req…

The increase in cost is controlled via the following two settings in Persona: Upload chunk tokens Search conversation chunks When using a persona with files, it will use Upload\ chunk\ tokens * Search\ conversation\ chunks extra tokens. You can tweak those to control the cost / quality ratio. …

Thanks a lot. Does anyone have a good experience on which values to use on those? I have no idea. A PDF with 30 pages would have around 7500 words, maybe. That might be extrapolated to 20000 tokens. Assuming that, would would it mean if I set Upload chunk tokens with value 2000, for example? Will …

[image] wlandgraf: Does anyone have a good experience on which values to use on those? I have no idea. Leave the defaults unless you have a good reason to change. Discourse defaults work for most use cases.

Do more persona files increase LLM request expenses?

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Falco (Falco) April 25, 2025, 2:21pm 5

Leave the defaults unless you have a good reason to change. Discourse defaults work for most use cases.

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Do more persona files increase LLM request expenses?

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