I Spent $50 on LLM API Calls. Then Optimized to $0. The real cost of AI features isn't the...
I Spent $50 on LLM API Calls. Then Optimized to $0.
The real cost of AI features isn't the subscription — it's the prompts you haven't optimized yet.
The $50 Month
Two months ago, my OpenAI API bill hit $50. For a side project used by maybe 100 people.
The features I was using weren't complex:
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