Open Source LLMs Are Crushing Closed-Source Models on Cost — The Data Is Brutal The Closed-Source Pricing Trap No One Talks About Closed-source models like GPT-4 and Claude 3 charge $.03 per 1,000 input tokens and $.06 per 1,000 output tokens at standard tiers. That pricing forces teams running high-volume applications into six-figure monthly bills once usage scales past a few million tokens...