Backend Engineer Cuts AI Costs 40x by Switching from OpenAI to Cheaper Alternatives
A backend engineer reduced their team's monthly LLM spending from roughly $500 to around $12.50 by migrating away from OpenAI's GPT-4o to DeepSeek V4 Flash, which charges $0.25 per million output…
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