alt Hacker NewsAre you guys ready for the bifurcation when the top models are prohibitively expensive to normal users? If your AI budget $2000+ a month? Or are you going to be part of the permanent free tier underclass?
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OsrsNeedsf2P • today at 7:13 PM
Inference for the same results has been dropping 10x year over year[0]
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asadm • today at 8:19 PM
if it can pay my rent, why not?
If one is to believe the API prices are reasonable representation of non subsidized "real world pricing" (with model training being the big exception), then the models are getting cheaper over time. GPT 4.5 was $150.00 / 1M tokens IIRC. GPT o1-pro was $600 / 1M tokens.