I Cut My AI Bill 40x by Routing Around US Vendors — Here's How
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I Cut My AI Bill 40x by Routing Around US Vendors — Here's How Six months ago I opened our monthly infrastructure bill and nearly choked. Our little AI wrapper startup was spending $41,000 a month just on inference tokens, and 92% of that was going to OpenAI. That's when I went down the rabbit hole of Chinese AI models, and what I found changed how we architect everything. This isn't a nationalist take. This isn't "China vs USA" chest-thumping. This is a CTO's honest accounting of what happens…
1Key Takeaways
- I Cut My AI Bill 40x by Routing Around US Vendors — Here's How Six months ago I opened our monthly infrastructure bill and nearly choked.
- Our little AI wrapper startup was spending $41,000 a month just on inference tokens, and 92% of that was going to OpenAI.
- That's when I went down the rabbit hole of Chinese AI models, and what I found changed how we architect everything.
- This isn't "China vs USA" chest-thumping.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that i Cut My AI Bill 40x by Routing Around US Vendors — Here's How Six months ago I opened our monthly infrastructure bill and nearly choked.
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