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The Silent Costs of AI APIs Nobody Warns You About

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The moment you sign up for an AI API, the pricing page looks deceptively clean. A neat table: $0.002 per 1K tokens for input, $0.006 per 1K tokens for output. You do the math, multiply by your expected usage, and think you’ve got your monthly budget nailed down. I’ve been building with these APIs f…

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  1. 2026-09-20 00:56 · DEV Community — AI
    The Silent Costs of AI APIs Nobody Warns You About

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