The API price page says a few dollars per million tokens and looks cheap. That is not what your AI feature will cost. Here is the real formula, a worked example, the levers that cut the bill, and when self-hosting actually pays.
Assistants like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code ship features fast and ship security holes at the same speed. Here are the flaws they reliably produce, with real before-and-after code, and how to use AI to catch them before an attacker does.
AI assistants can now scan your codebase for vulnerabilities and propose patches. Here is how to wire that into a real pipeline, why you still keep a deterministic scanner next to it, and the four places it will lie to you if you let it.
A government directive can now switch off your AI provider overnight - and pricing, deprecation, and policy could always do it. If a core feature depends on one model API you don't control, that's a single point of failure. Here's how to treat model access like any other supply-chain risk.
