OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

Re:OpenAI API pricing update FAQ by umanwizard on Monday August 22, 2022 @02:43PM (#32555461)

Consider “cheapness” to be the reciprocal of price; thus, something that costs $30 has a cheapness score of 1/30 antidollars.

For this item to become 3x cheaper would mean for its cheapness score to be multiplied by 3, thus 1/10 antidollars. Thus “3x cheaper” means the same thing as “price multipled by one third”.

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Re:OpenAI API pricing update FAQ by copperx on Monday August 22, 2022 @02:50PM (#32555555)

I like this hypothesis; however, if that was indeed the original meaning, it would have more sense to advertise it as a 33% discount, or as slashing the price by 1/3. "3x cheaper" seems to be aimed to the average Joe shopping for shoes, not to a developer who knows arithmetic.

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Re:OpenAI API pricing update FAQ by umanwizard on Monday August 22, 2022 @04:40PM (#32556904)

It's not the same thing as a 33% discount, nor slashing the price by 1/3. It's slashing the price by 2/3.

A 33% discount would be "1.5x cheaper" by my analysis.

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