Practical breakdowns on LLM pricing, vector DB costs, image generation, and payment processor fees — with direct links to the calculators.
Exact monthly costs for LLM APIs, vector databases, auth, hosting, and payments at 1K, 10K, and 100K users. Budget vs premium stack comparison with optimization strategies.
Calculate your exact LLM API costs. Real monthly breakdowns for every major model — GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 nano, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and more. Includes prompt caching and batch API savings.
Real monthly costs for GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Windsurf at light, medium, and heavy usage. Which tool fits your budget?
A complete breakdown of token pricing across every major provider. Input vs output token splits, context windows, and batching decisions explained.
Prompt caching, model routing, Batch API, context truncation — battle-tested strategies with real dollar savings.
Exact costs at 1M, 10M, and 100M vectors. Find the cheapest vector database for your production workload.
The true cost including VAT handling, chargebacks, and hidden fees at $5K, $25K, and $100K MRR.
At 100K images/month the cost gap is $3,500+. Find out exactly where each model wins.
Merchant of Record vs payment processor: tax handling, fees, and the real break-even for indie devs.
Subscription vs pay-per-use. Real cost breakdown at different volume tiers.
Full breakdown of Pinecone serverless vs pod-based pricing with comparison to Qdrant and Weaviate.
Full price breakdown at every tier. Find the cheapest cloud VPS for your CPU/RAM/storage needs.
Invocation costs, memory pricing, free tiers — full breakdown at 1M, 10M, and 100M invocations.
Cost per 1M tokens, latency, and quality trade-offs across all major embedding providers.
Cost per minute for STT, per 1000 characters for TTS. Full breakdown with real-world usage estimates.
Per-million request costs, data transfer fees, and break-even points at every traffic scale.
How multi-step reasoning, tool calls, and memory compound your real agent spend.