teemoon research
where your prompts actually go.
what chat apps do with a conversation, and what a token actually costs.
- pay per token, not per month — but the cheap-model era has a plot twist. metered billing beats a $20 subscription for ordinary use and loses badly at the heavy tail. the arithmetic, the vendor-vs-reseller distinction, and why the cheap-open-weight discount is compressing. 13 aug 2026 product 8 min
- your AI chatbot trains on you. the api running the same model doesn't. consumer tiers train on your conversations. api tiers don't, and they cap retention where consumer tiers don't cap it at all — same model, same prompt, different defaults. then the part the marketing skips: the api isn't private in ways that matter either. 12 aug 2026 privacy research 9 min