Ubikon · 2026 AI Pricing
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The short answer
API integration or custom model training — the two are not comparable in cost.
The cost fork
Integrating an existing AI API is the faster, cheaper path for most products. Custom model training is a different scale of project.
LLM Integration
Built on an existing provider API — prompt engineering, context management, streaming responses.
RAG Pipeline
Document ingestion, a vector database, embeddings, and retrieval + reranking.
Computer Vision
Model selection or training, an image processing pipeline, and an inference API.
Custom ML Platform
Dataset prep, model training and fine-tuning, an MLOps pipeline, and continuous retraining — the biggest-scale AI project type.
Budget warning
API costs recur monthly. Budget token spend from day one.
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