AI Costs10 min
n8n Pricing Explained: Cloud, Self-Hosted or Zapier?
What n8n really costs: cloud plans from €20, free self-hosting and the AI model bill on top. One AI workflow priced at 1k, 10k and 100k runs vs Zapier and Make.
Oct 9, 2026Read
AI Cost Guides
What AI actually costs once you run it — API bills, agent loops, tokens, and whether a subscription or a key is cheaper for the way you work.
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AI Costs11 min
How Much Does an AI Agent Cost per Month? 5 Workloads Priced
We priced five AI agents (email triage, support, RAG, research, coding) on current API rates: $6 to $2,222 a month. What drives the bill and how to cut it.
Oct 1, 2026Read
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Is Legal AI Worth It for a Solo Lawyer? The ROI Math
What legal AI costs a solo lawyer, how many hours it must save to break even, and why hourly billing changes the math. With ABA Opinion 512 on fees and consent.
Oct 1, 2026Read
AI Costs11 min
Prompt Caching Explained: How Much Can It Cut Your AI Bill?
Prompt caching cut our modeled AI bills by 67–89% on Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and DeepSeek. Write fees, minimums, lifetimes and when caching costs you more.
Sep 29, 2026Read
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OpenRouter vs Direct API Pricing: Are You Paying a Middleman Tax?
OpenRouter charges the same token prices as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The cost is a 5.5% credit fee — here is when BYOK or open models make it disappear.
Sep 28, 2026Read
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DeepSeek vs OpenAI API Cost: Cheap Tokens vs Total Task Cost
DeepSeek is not always the cheapest API anymore. Compare current V4 and GPT-6 rates, caching, peak pricing, retries and the real cost of a finished task.
Sep 26, 2026Read
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Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra: We Tested the 40% Cheaper Claim
Claude Opus 5.5 promises 40% lower costs. We test that claim against Opus 5 and GPT-6 Astra using cached agents, long context and Batch workloads.
Sep 23, 2026Read
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Gemini API Pricing Explained: When the Cheapest Model Actually Wins
Gemini API input, output, cache, Batch and Flex prices modeled on three real workloads—plus the quality test a cheaper Flash-Lite model must pass.
Sep 23, 2026Read
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OpenAI API Pricing Explained: What One Million Tokens Actually Buys
OpenAI's API rate card decoded line by line: input, output, cached input and cache writes, the 272K long-context cliff, Batch, Flex and Fast mode, with costs.
Sep 22, 2026Read
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Claude API Pricing Explained: Input, Output and Prompt Cache Costs
Anthropic's price table worked into real requests: the five token prices, when caching pays, what batching stacks to, and why cheaper tokens can cost more.
Sep 21, 2026Read
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ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: Cost per Real Task Compared
Five real tasks priced on nine models at September 2026 API rates: which tier and provider is cheapest per summary, reply, translation and coding turn.
Sep 19, 2026Read
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Claude Code vs Cursor vs OpenAI Codex: Which Coding Agent Costs Less?
Claude Code vs Cursor vs Codex priced by the task: what one agent loop costs per model, what a month of real use is worth, and which $20–$200 tier fits.
Sep 16, 2026Read
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ChatGPT Plus vs Pro vs API: Which Is Actually Cheaper?
ChatGPT Plus is $20, Pro starts at $100, and the API charges by token. We calculate the break-even point using current GPT-5.6 prices.
Sep 13, 2026Read
AI Costs9 min
Claude Pro vs Max vs API: What the Plans Actually Cost a Heavy User
Anthropic sells Claude in multipliers and the API in tokens. Converted into one unit: where Pro, Max 5x and Max 20x stop being the cheap option.
Sep 11, 2026Read
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What AI Actually Costs: The Four Numbers Behind Your API Bill
A support reply priced on five models, a system prompt resent 10,000 times, an agent loop and reply length — the four numbers that decide an AI bill.
Sep 10, 2026Read
AI Costs8 min
Best MCP Servers for Claude — and What Each One Costs You in Tokens
Five MCP servers add ~55,000 tokens to every Claude request. Here is what that costs a month, what the popular servers do, and the three fixes that work.
Sep 10, 2026Read