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AI API Costs Do Not Decrease as Usage Scales

Traditional AI API pricing does not reward usage growth or model familiarity, making it difficult for product teams to build toward improving unit economics over time. This post implicitly identifies a structural problem in how AI infrastructure is priced relative to the value generated.

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