The Silent Costs of AI APIs Nobody Warns You About
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The first time I saw my AI API bill, I laughed. Then I cried. Then I spent three hours digging through a spreadsheet trying to figure out which endpoint had burned through $1,400 in a week. The pricing page had said $0.002 per 1K tokens. Clean, simple, easy to understand. But that was just the list…
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- 2026-10-27 00:55 · DEV Community — AI
The Silent Costs of AI APIs Nobody Warns You About