Document pipeline cost: $14 vs $1,200

- A practitioner shared a concrete cost comparison: processing 847 documents used ~2.3k API calls costing $14 versus an estimated $1,200 on a conventional cloud pipeline. - The specific numbers were: 847 docs, 2,300 API calls, $14 measured spend compared to $1,200 cloud estimate. - That tweet is being cited to argue design choices and model selection can dramatically change per-workflow cloud costs. (x.com)