371 chatbot requests, 3.7M tokens, just $1.04: real-world site chatbot API costs
Spiritual_Grape3522 · reddit · 2026-11-03
An indie developer shared real usage data for their site's Fabio chatbot running on the ChatGPT Luna 5.6 API: over the last 30 days it handled 371 requests and 3.7M tokens for a total of $1.04 — roughly $0.003 per request.
They backed it up with an OpenAI usage dashboard screenshot and offered to answer questions about the setup, concluding that running an AI chatbot on a website is far cheaper than most people assume.
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