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Cost Estimate for Sending 2,500 AI-Personalized Emails to Verified Addresses

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Any chance of an estimate how much it costs in dollars to send an AI generated personalized email to 2,500 verified email addresses? There are a few credit draining tasks to get to that end result and I'm trying to estimate what our costs are going to be

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    Hi Cody, thanks for getting in touch! You can check this here https://openai.com/pricing#language-models

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    Thanks Juan. So that gives the OpenAI pricing but I don't know how to translate that to Clay, plus there are the other Clay steps in that process that aren't OpenAI tasks. I just want an estimate of how much it will cost to send ~2,500 personalized emails via Clay

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    Thanks Arturo, so can you help me calculate roughly how much it would cost to send 1,000 personalized emails per day in Clay? Seems like it would take around 4-6 credits roughly to send AI personalized emails so 4,000 to 6,000 credits which is $385 roughly right? I initially thought Clay was the budget option for us to do this but it is actually looking way more expensive than the competition as I look into it more. Am I missing something?

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    I'd say that's a decent average credit-wise, of course, it may not be the right tool for everyone depending on various factors but a ton of our users are SMBs or early-stage startups and they’ve definitely gotten their value from clay.When put into perspective, other tools could take a lot more time to aggregate as much data into a single source like a spreadsheet or CRM, aside from having to run other AI tools that would allow you to personalize at scale in a similar fashion.

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    If you have your own API keys with some of the providers, for example, openAI or any email finder, you can use it and save on Clay credits for something else.

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    We're also continuously adding more options to improve coverage and eventually solve for more use cases.

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    Yeah that all makes sense, thanks. I tried to hook up my own OpenAI API keys but got an error, not sure what was going wrong...

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    Or maybe it is working it's just saying it'll be slow? Which is fine

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    Ok it looks like using my own API key is WAY cheaper. Curious exactly how much cheaper though, do you know a conversion? Or do I just have to run x amount of rows and see how much I get charged? Also is there a way so it uses GPT 4 instead of 3.5 turbo?