Everyone talks about model pricing. Nobody shows real bills. Here's mine: 3,452,248,487 tokens....
Everyone talks about model pricing. Nobody shows real bills.
Here's mine: 3,452,248,487 tokens. 37,882 API calls. $27 total.
That's not a typo. Twenty-seven dollars.
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DeepSeek permanently cuts API prices
DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.
Deepseek makes its 75 percent discount permanent, pricing output tokens at least 34x below GPT-5.5
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