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Even more if you are familiar with their pricing.

This! We did some simple testing on their platform to integrate it into our product for a customer. In a few days of light work rang up a huge bill. Many multiples of what we spend on OpenAI, which gets heavy use.

It does have some good aspects for engineers working with these tools in some cases: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-...

Man this article was fantastic. Thanks for sharing!

Granted, OpenAI is burning tons of cash as well. The great tech race of cash burning is at full steam!

Its unfair to compare Databricks to OpenAI because they're at very different points in the enshittification[1] process.

OpenAI is still early, burning VC money to acquire customers by operating at a loss. This makes it appear cheap.

DataBricks is further along, attempting to claw back the value they provided to customers by raising prices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

But they can’t get the value as long as they have to compete with snowflake.

That may be, but our use of DB was 1/1000 of what we do in a month with OpenAI and the bill we racked up was $3,000 in 1 day. We talked with them and because we freaked out and deleted the widget (whatever the connectors are called) they didn't have logs for what we did, so they couldn't refund anything (they were willing). The fact that they couldn't find anything because we deleted whatever it was, that was weird, because they could certainly bill us. We're never using them again.

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