50x cheaper, damn. I recall Chinese LLMs being similarly cheaper (and quite suitable for such simple tasks).

I think a decision model is superior here based on the task, and of course they weren't out yet when they started, but I'm wondering if they wouldn't have similar results (on price, probably not on speed) if they went with DeepSeek or something?

I don't mean send the data to china obviously — there must be an American provider that offers it?

Anyway it's moot in this case (decision model is a better fit) but it just makes me wonder who else is overpaying by 2 orders of magnitude.