Low-cost chatbot backend for SaaS startups: per-token pricing, batching, data boundaries
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Use two providers, not one. Keep the audio with a transcription specialist you actually have a contract with, and run the text step — summarize the sales call, emit CRM actions — behind an OpenAI-compatible chat backend you can repoint in an afternoon. That split is what makes a low-cost chatbot ba…
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- 2026-08-23 23:34 · DEV Community — AI
Low-cost chatbot backend for SaaS startups: per-token pricing, batching, data boundaries