What does an AI integration cost to run monthly?

Most products spend far less than feared: model APIs bill per token, and a typical SaaS AI feature costs tens to a few hundred dollars monthly at early scale. The costs that surprise people come from unbounded prompts and missing caching, both of which are engineering fixes.

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