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It probably is. I'd bet for 99.99% of their users, simply using the API directly would be much cheaper. The ChatGPT premium subscription is overpriced if you co
by rany_ 4y ago
It probably is. I'd bet for 99.99% of their users, simply using the API directly would be much cheaper. The ChatGPT premium subscription is overpriced if you compare it to the cost of each API call.. at least according to OpenAI's pricing.
- theshrike79 4y agoYeah, I'm waiting for one more month for the API-bots to mature. Then I'll cancel my ChatGPT premium subscription and put up a private Discord server just for myself and a GPT4 bot. And save a ton of money at the same time.
- jerkstate 4y agoIt’s pretty easy to spend a couple of dollars with a few interactions with the API. I tried one of those langchain type agents and it spent $2 in 10 minutes. My guess is they make more money per user from the API than they do from ChatGPT. I have found Bing and Bard a lot more efficient for tasks where you need to look stuff up on the web, probably because they both have local access to a crawler index. They do tend to need more guidance though.
- mike_hearn 4y agoSomeone on Reddit claimed they attended a talk by Sam Altman where he said Plus pays for its own compute but that's it.