I paid a total of 13 US Dollars for all my llm usage in about 3 years. Should I analyze my providers and see if there's room for improvement?

How? All LLM-as-a-Servive's are prohibitively expensive for me. $13 over 3 years sounds too-good-to-be-true.

	▲	dizhn 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		All local CLIs with free to use models. CLIs are opencode, iflow, qwen, gemini. What I did splurge on was brief openai access for some subtitle translator program and when I used the deepseek api. Actually I think that $13 includes some as yet unused credits. :D I'd be happy to provide details if CLIs are an option and you don't m ind some sweatshop agent. :) (I am just now noticing I meant to type 2 years not 3 above. Sorry about that.)

lorey 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Depends on your remaining budget ;)

	▲	dizhn 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is absolutely right. :)