Costs of using external services via APIs in soilwise

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Costs of using external services via APIs in soilwise #6

Open robknapen opened 3 weeks ago

robknapen commented 3 weeks ago

Some of the external services that we intend to use in the project (e.g. translation and language models) are not for free. Creation of an API key with a payment plan (credit card) is sometimes needed. How will this be arranged ?

The OpenAI LLMs are now accessed using a subscription owned by WEnR. Usage at the moment is still limited, but when it intensifies costs will start to add up (and services will stop working when budget limits are reached).

pvgenuchten commented 1 day ago

Maybe we should move this issue to the governance repository?

We may have to distinguish between:

costs involved to research what type of value such a service can provide to a repository like SWR
costs involved when running such a component in a production scenario (post project)

As translation service I suggest to use the free-to-use for academia translate service provided by EU. But maybe we want to compare it to another (paid) service?

@BerkvensNick what do you think?