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A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The actual cost to OpenAI is likely much less. The number in the article is calculating the API cost that a fully maxed out subscription would incur theoretically. The API token cost, however, is far above the actual computational cost.

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  • [โ€“] 30 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [โ€“] 7 points 4 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.

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