Why OpenAI charges me so much: 10 USD per 2000 s.w.? I use AI Professional plugin.

Hi!

I tried 2 times to use the plugin. And each time my budget flew away for a couple of minutes.

First time in May I topped it with 10 USD and for a couple of hours my translator spent them for a translation of about 2000 s.w.

Bar charts comparing costs for GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4 over dates in May. GPT-3.5 Turbo shows a peak on 12 May, while GPT-4 shows a peak on 18 May.

Bar charts for GPT-4-0613 showing API requests and tokens used. A spike in API requests is seen on one day, and a corresponding spike in tokens on another day.

Second time in June I again topped 10 USD for some tests and after translating a couple of segments in Trados, the budget was finished.

Bar charts comparing costs for GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo over dates in June. GPT-4 shows a consistent cost, while GPT-3.5 Turbo shows a peak on 29 June.

Bar charts for GPT-4-0613 showing API requests and tokens used in June. There's a spike in API requests mid-month and a larger spike in tokens used at the end of the month.

According to Open AI 1000 tokens are about 750 words. But for translation of 2000 s.w. it charged me more than 200k tokens.

Here is my prompt in the plugin:

"Act as an experience translator in the subject of the source text. Translate this text by applying the terms from the termbase attached to the project."

And my plugin settings:

Screenshot of plugin settings for GPT-4 with options for translation suggestions, terminology-aware suggestions, and other features enabled.

What I am doing wrong?

Thank you in advance for your help.



I corrected spelling mistakes.
[edited by: Sotir Rangelov at 2:15 PM (GMT 1) on 15 Jul 2024]
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