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Back to EpisodesEP030: The AI Pricing War — Why Model Costs Dropped 90% in One Year
Published 5 months, 1 week ago
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AI API pricing has collapsed over the past twelve months — GPT-4 went from $30/M to $2.50/M, DeepSeek came in at $0.27/M. We break down what's driving the price war (competition, inference efficiency, open source pressure), the hidden costs most developers miss (rate limits, latency, reliability), and why the smart strategy is dynamic model routing instead of locking into one provider.