$17K/month AI API bill: user says flagship model costs are unsustainable
Retromorphix · reddit · 2026-08-21
A developer shares a $17,000 monthly AI API bill, saying tokens-per-task on flagship models have gone through the roof while lower-tier models can't handle most tasks. They're asking the community what actually works to control costs: caching, pruning, compression, bulk buying, or routing to open-source models.
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