Yeah, it's different because it's behind a HTTP API and in a year or two, once OpenAI is skint and your entire product is built around their chat API, you'll be paying 50 cents per request ...at which point your product will no longer be profitable.
The competition is only increasing which will drive down the price. Right now users have 3 main providers: OpenAI, Anthromorpic and Google along with dozen open source models.
