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Beyond the Subscription: How Local Infrastructure Prevents Vendor Lock-In
15 June 2026|Hynt Digital
Sources:
- OpenAI API Pricing History: GPT-4 (March 2023) $30/1M input tokens → GPT-4o (May 2024) $2.50/1M input tokens
- Twitter API: Free → $42,000/month enterprise access (2023) — The Verge
- Reddit API: Free → $0.24/1,000 requests (2023) — The Verge
- BCS: "Most organisations don't have an AI problem, they have a knowledge problem" — Danny Major MBCS
- UK ICO: "AI and data protection" guidance — data protection obligations cannot be outsourced to vendors
- EU AI Act: Regulation 2024/1689 — documentation and transparency requirements for AI systems
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