Have you looked into OpenAI's GPT-4o pricing lately? They charge $10 for 1M output tokens, or 500k tokens for the price of a $5/mo VPS.

If we assume a generous 2 tokens per word on average (OpenAI suggests it's actually 3 tokens per 4 words), that's still 5 full 50k word novels worth of text every month for the price of a single DigitalOcean droplet.

This pricing cannot be sustainable in the long term right? The LLM companies are currently bleeding money.

It’s not sustainable for anything other than static content generation. Any type of back and forth with LLM is simply too costly.