- Published on May 7, 2025
- In AI Startups
Why KiranaPro Quit OpenAI for TWO AI
KiranaPro has been an AI-first company from the beginning, starting with a voice assistant.
- By Siddharth Jindal
Indian Quick commerce company KiranaPro recently transitioned from using OpenAI’s API to its own ChatSutra API, developed by the Indian company TWO AI.
“No more dependencies. No more limits. Just pure Indian innovation, built to empower local commerce and showcase India to the world,” said Deepak Ravindran, founder of KiranaPro, in a post on X.
To get a better sense of what led to the shift, AIM reached out to Ravindran. “Cost is one factor. I’ve been paying a lot of money through my own credit cards for the ChatGPT servers, and that wasn’t effective for us. That was one of the primary reasons,” he explained.
OpenAI’s Realtime API, which offers low-latency, multimodal experiences like speech-to-speech, with GPT-4o, is priced at $5.00 per 1M input tokens, $2.5
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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