V1 free vs V3 paid, really?

[hongyi-zhao]

I noticed the following description in README:

I think all of them are paid. As the proverb goes: "There is no such thing as a pie falling from the sky".

Regards,
Zhao

[acheong08]

https://chat.openai.com is free but protected by Cloudflare. Once Cloudflare bypassed, it is free. However, if OpenAI is made aware of the bypass, it will no longer be free. To keep it available, I run a proxy server so that the bypass is not revealed.

Since I'm paying for the server costs which allow it to continue being free, yes, it is technically paid, just by me rather than you.

[hongyi-zhao]

TBF, V3 is faster and cheaper than V1. So, it seems that it's time for you to stop providing V1 services personally.

[acheong08]

Agreed. I need to somehow convince everyone that has V1 as a dependency though

[hongyi-zhao]

I admire your spirit of service for free.

[chelishchev]

It's only because I provide a public service. If it was for personal use, $5 per month would suffice. the issue is that I have over 119k unique users of the unofficial API

Is it possible to share code of proxy server? To deploy it byself?

[acheong08]

Is it possible to share code of proxy server? To deploy it byself?

The issue with that is the fact that the method would be blocked by OpenAI if they are made aware.

https://github.com/fuergaosi233/chatgpt-proxy-server is an open source implementation but also with a few details missing required to run