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OpenAI o3-pro is Too Expensive: My Cheap AI Dev Setup Using Alibaba Cloud

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When OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in its API, costing $20/1M input and $80/1M output tokens, I was genuinely excited about the advanced reasoning capabilities. But as an indie developer who iterates heavily on code, doing the math on those API costs made my stomach drop.…

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  1. 2026-09-12 23:29 · DEV Community — AI
    OpenAI o3-pro is Too Expensive: My Cheap AI Dev Setup Using Alibaba Cloud

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