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30 Cheap AI Models That Can Slash Your API Costs

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer discovered that many AI models cost 100x less than GPT-4o, with some as low as $0.01 per million output tokens. Models like Qwen3-8B and DeepSeek V4 Flash offer strong performance for simple tasks at a fraction of the price. Using a unified API gateway, developers can easily switch between models to optimize costs.

Meridian48 take
The article is a practical guide for bootcamp grads, but it glosses over quality trade-offs and assumes a unified API is always available.
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