Our OpenAI bill tripled in 60 days. User growth was up 40%. Revenue was up. But the API bill was...
Our OpenAI bill tripled in 60 days.
User growth was up 40%. Revenue was up. But the API bill was growing 3x faster than everything else.
I spent a week digging into why. What I found was embarrassing and completely fixable.
What the data showed
After analyzing thousands of real API calls, the same four patterns kept showing up:
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