AI API Pricing Breakdown: Why the Same Functionality Costs Some $10 and Others $100?
Why Should You Care? Let’s say you want to build an AI application (chatbot, content generator, customer service system, etc.). There are three major AI service providers in the market: OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude. Their pricing models look complicated, but once you understand them, they’re actually quite simple. How big is the difference? For the same 100,000 conversations (typical volume for a small-to-medium application per month): Right choice: $62 Wrong choice: $175 With optimization: $20-30 That’s nearly a 9x difference. ...