Inference alone totally can be. Just look at banana.dev, runpod, lambda labs, or replicate. The issue is OpenAI is not just selling inference. Though I wouldn

Inference alone totally can be. Just look at banana.dev, runpod, lambda labs, or replicate. The issue is OpenAI is not just selling inference. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some hidden costs that are hard for us to account for due to the sheer amount of traffic they must be getting on an hourly basis.