The Silent Costs of AI APIs Nobody Warns You About
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I remember the exact moment I realized AI API pricing was a trap. I was building a document summarization tool. The math looked beautiful on paper. GPT-4o-mini was something like $0.15 per million input tokens. I calculated my projected costs at scale and celebrated with a coffee. The unit economic…
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- 2026-10-11 00:55 · DEV Community — AI
The Silent Costs of AI APIs Nobody Warns You About