You Don’t Need To Pay for the OpenAI API During Development

If you’re developing or thinking of creating an app that leverages the OpenAI API but don’t want to put down your credit card until you’re sure you have something, I have good news for you. In this article I’m going to show you how you can create a backend API which is compatiable with the OpenAI API. However, when running this API locally during development, we will use the Llama3 model running locally on your laptop. When you want to use this in production, all you need to do is change the environment variables, and everything else will remain the same :) ...

July 10, 2024 · 6 min · Arsh Sharma