teemoon research https://teemoon.ai/blog/ what chat apps do with a conversation, and what a token actually costs. en Pay per token, not per month — but the cheap-model era has a plot twist. https://teemoon.ai/blog/pay-per-token-not-per-month/ https://teemoon.ai/blog/pay-per-token-not-per-month/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. Your AI chatbot trains on you. The API running the same model doesn't. https://teemoon.ai/blog/api-vs-chat-app-privacy/ https://teemoon.ai/blog/api-vs-chat-app-privacy/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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.