This can’t be right?!
I am honestly in a panic. This is insane. I am not a super heavy user, maybe 3/4 hours a day in the evening of light one off tasks. April was the first time I used over the 1500 credits and I had no issue paying the additional 40$ of use. Heck, even running this calculator when only using approx 450 premium requests, STILL results in a monthly costs of around 140$?! That’s not even half the usage Included in the base 39$ a month plan!!
I’m building a small church management database system because literally all of the public ChMS options have DOUBLED their pricing for ridiculous features that either don’t fully work right or are useless to our church.
After the 3rd price increase in a YEAR, I opted to build this because I THOUGHT we would be able to do it for relatively low monthly costs (~$100) between vercel/supabase/copilot. Nah I look like an idiot. Actually let me rephrase - that was the case a month ago, but now that these idiots have to jack up pricing, it’s no longer feasible.
I’ve been building this for the last 3 months and nearing completion, but this possible usage cost/report has me terrified. There is no way I nor the church could offset a bill like this! ! ! I’m all for appropriately paying for what is being used, but this should be illegal and this bait and switch crap is completely unfair and UNETHICAL. A 400$ + jump is absurd and It boils my blood that yet again these little scummy corporate bigots get away with ripping people off.
Please tell me there’s something better/cheaper out there? I’ve looked into a few of the ‘china’ local LLMs, but honestly not sure which to start with. We don’t need something with “cutting edge abilities” lol. Just something that works and won’t generate a bunch of buggy code.