How much are you using your ChatGPT pro subscription?

I wanted to figure out how many tokens I was using and if it made sense to use the API and pay granularly instead of the pro plan for chatGPT ($200/month).

So, I built tokount. It is almost entirely built by prompting the replit agent. Except for the tokenizer, which was written with some help from chatGPT o1-preview.

It cost me approx. $45 just for prompting the replit agent, and a few additional dollars for database and VM. Took about 2 full days and did it on a mix of phone and laptop. Needed the laptop for tokenizer, most other features could be built just on the phone.

Conclusion: I’m definitely better off using the API. It’s surprising how much text is needed to reach 1M Tokens.

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