• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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    3 months ago

    I disagree - the analysis takes as a basis a very, very generous margin of 75% on API prices. There is no way they have that much of a margin, this is wishful thinking.

    And every single user who maxes out their 200$-subscription burns more cash than they take in from 70 subscriptions that lie dormant.

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      3 months ago

      I was talking to one of our cloud architects at work yesterday. They did a test and just ran in “asdf” to a chat prompt, and were able to trace the costs. It was 12 cents.

      I could totally see AI costs getting out of control very quickly. Doing something like a Copilot formula in an Excel spreadsheet is easily going to run up hundreds of dollars of costs eventually.