Why pay a monthly fee when you can pay for exactly the # of tokens you actually consume?
The API rates are very affordable once you start to optimize for the fact that prepaid tokens seem to massively outperform other kinds of tokens.
I can often do with 1 million tokens what my peers have failed to do with 100 million. For me to spend more than $200/m in prepaid API tokens I'd have to pull a 007 work schedule.
> Why pay a monthly fee when you can pay for exactly the # of tokens you actually consume?
Because my 500m tokens so far this month would cost me about $500. My subscription is 100$/month.
That’s insane. 500m tokens costs me $12 on Deepseek.