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2026-08-17
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artificial-intelligence
I Spent $47 Testing Multimodal AI APIs — Here's What Actually Works
A developer spent $47 testing nine multimodal AI APIs from Chinese labs, including Qwen, GLM, Hunyuan, and Doubao, to find cost-effective alternatives to OpenAI's GPT-4o for image-heavy workloads. The…