jarrod
jarrod

šŸ†•šŸ“ OpenAIā€™s 4o model cost me a whopping 62 cents last month

And I use it a lot! If youā€™re paying $20/month for ChatGPT Plus just to use the API, youā€™re vastly overpaying.

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jarrod
jarrod

@jarrod Or 323x more than I paid for OpenAIā€™s API last month šŸ‘† šŸ˜³

šŸ”— ChatGPT Pro coming soon for $200/month, per OpenAI leak (Ryan Christoffel / 9to5mac.com)

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humdrum@social.lol
humdrum@social.lol

@jarrod Have you written about how you use/interact with it?

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jarrod
jarrod

@humdrum Yep, just yesterday! First post in this thread.

heydingus.net/blog/2024...

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humdrum@social.lol
humdrum@social.lol

@jarrod šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø shouldā€™ve actually clicked throughā€¦ my apologies

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jarrod
jarrod

@humdrum Lol no worries

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amerpie@social.lol
amerpie@social.lol

@jarrod I've spent $10 on the API over the past year - using your shortcut almost every day as well as lots of proofreading a general knowledge searches. I have the APO plugged into a bunch of apps

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jarrod
jarrod

@amerpie Ah, I meant to mention that you might be able to save on other app subscription costs if they let you plug in your own API key!

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jarrod
jarrod

@jarrod

Screenshot of an update to the blog post saying, ā€œUpdate: I meant to mention that some other apps will let you plug in your personal API key to enable OpenAI-dependent features. Drafts is one example. Some apps will offer that as an alternative to paying extra for AI features since youā€™re removing them from needing your requests through their API and their expense. It can save you from needing to pay each developer directly for AI features, and Iā€™d like to see more apps offered that option.ā€

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pratik
pratik

@jarrod Iā€™ve suggested this to the Croissantā€™s developers for the alt text after uploading an image

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jarrod
jarrod

@pratik Thatā€™d be cool!

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thosch
thosch

@jarrod Thanks for sharing this. This is a cost-risk-free way to use OpenAI.

Whats the difference between this two limits.

Is it riskfree to leave the first value on this high amount?

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fabio
fabio

@jarrod really interesting. I pay 20 for Claude (Anthropic), but I really like their interface and ux. For me it's worth the ~19 a month that I would otherwise saveā€¦ But I say this without ever having tried to work with the API for my personal usage.

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jarrod
jarrod

@thosch Thanks for reading! The first is OpenAIā€™s limit. They wouldnā€™t let me pay over $1000 even if I wanted to. The second is a limit I set. I donā€™t want to pay over $10 per month.

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jarrod
jarrod

@fabio Iā€™m tempted to try Claude. I hear good things.

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fabio
fabio

@jarrod I like Anthropic because it feels to me more of a lab and OpenAI more of a business. I canā€™t say though if itā€™s real or just excellent marketing from Anthropic. Claude is excellent, incredible comprehension skills but I canā€™t compare it to ChatGPT because honestly almost never used it.

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