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Genuine question for people paying OpenAI, Anthropic or Google for a product feature. I've been digging into AI API pricing lately, and going through the provider pricing pages and public write-ups, the same three things keep coming up: The bills are split across providers, so nobody sees the total. Simple jobs (tagging, extraction, short summaries) run on the most expensive model because that's what was set up first. Spikes from retry loops or a bad deploy run for weeks before anyone looks. So I'm curious: do you review the usage breakdown monthly, or only when the bill jumps? And has anyone here actually moved routine calls to a smaller model and measured the quality difference? Happy to share the per-token math for common setups in the comments if it's useful.   submitted by   /u/Terrible_Ad1544 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/9 22:54:29