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0.1% of OpenRouter is around 400 billion tokens per month or around $400k per month at a cost of $1 per 1 million input tokens, not counting output.

I think it's pretty disingenuous to call your SaaS little when it is projected to spend at least 5 million USD just on tokens and this is a low end estimate.

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Their homepage says 30T tokens monthly, so 0.1% would be 30 billion.

And I pay way less than $1 per input token, especially when caching is taken into account.

EDIT: they updated it in the last day or two, now it says 70T, so I’m a little below 0.1% now. But seriously, the point stands, 70T tokens a month just isn’t that much in the global scheme. The big labs are pushing quadrillions each.

Ill sell you tokens for just 1 cent each, as many as you want. Bargain!

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