Competition is a wonderful thing. $1.20 per 1M output is crazy, but let’s also not forget that OpenAI was one of the first to start increasing model prices ~10-12 months ago.
GPT-5 cost $10 (per 1M output)
They still have to pay back those hundreds of billions of investment dollars somehow.
The best thing any developer can do today is to make their app LLM/provider agnostic (or use an LLM gateway) to avoid lock-in.
GPT-5 cost $10 (per 1M output)
They still have to pay back those hundreds of billions of investment dollars somehow.
The best thing any developer can do today is to make their app LLM/provider agnostic (or use an LLM gateway) to avoid lock-in.