There is an inconvenient truth the artificial intelligence industry prefers to whisper rather than proclaim: the real cost of putting an LLM into production almost never matches the API invoice . It's like buying a car and discovering that the dealership price didn't include the wheels, the insu...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/datalaria/the-hidden-economics-of-ai-what-it-actually-costs-to-run-llms-in-production-with-real-data-40h9)