Can you achieve the same results using an API instead of GPT-4? (to make it cheaper)

I was wondering if anyone uses API instead of GPT-4. I don’t use Dalle or GPTs.

So, I pay $20, and I’m sure I don’t use it to its full capacity.

I’m wondering if anyone has used a chatbot template connected with OpenAI API?

If yes, how much do you pay? Do you use it daily, and what’s the quality like?

Do you utilize such solution?

Do you know what’s approx costs if the costs are the same if I use API?

The amount you pay per API call can vary drastically depending on your inputs and your management of chat information.

Here is a basic input, with no memory of prior chat:

With the GPT-4-Turbo AI model costing $0.01 per 1k tokens in, and $0.03 per 1k tokens out, sending 100 tokens is 1/10 of a cent. Then you pay for how much the AI writes.

However, that input can grow vastly if you are maintaining a long chat history of past interactions, are processing multiple documents, hundreds of lines of computer code, or placing other information into context, up to $1.25 per API call at the max of the longest context length gpt-4-turbo model (or the very limited release gpt-4-32k: $2.88 for 16k in 16k out). It depends on your use, as you pay per data.