Comment by edg5000

I'm not happy about it, but API prices seem actually reasonable if you compare it to free-market pure inference providers. They need to buy the same power, same hardware as the big labs without needing any R&D. This means that the coding plans must be subsidized. I'm not happy about that, because it means we'll be paying more, until hardware and maybe power drops in price, which, if we look at e.g. the housing market, may never happen during my lifetime.