Cost
21 guides tagged “Cost”.
- How to Set a Spend Limit for a Coding Agent Limit at three levels: per run, per day, and per account. A limit that is checked after the fact is a report, not a control.
- What Is Rate Limiting for AI Coding Tools? AI coding tools rate-limit on requests, tokens, and concurrency, usually in rolling windows. Hitting a limit is a capacity signal, not a bug.
- Why Did My AI Coding Bill Spike? Usually a long agent run re-sending context, a large file read repeatedly, or a retry loop. Find the expensive action before changing plans.
- What Does ICP Filing Cost? The filing itself has no official fee. The real cost is mainland hosting, the entity, translations, and agent fees for a commercial license.
- Egress vs Ingress Bandwidth: What's the Difference? Ingress is data coming in and is usually free; egress is data going out and is billed. Direction, not volume, is what shows up on the invoice.
- How to Productionize an AI App Productionizing an AI feature means adding quotas, timeouts, fallbacks, evaluations, cost controls, and observability around a demo.
- How to Measure Token ROI Token ROI is the value of a completed task divided by its full token cost, including retries, failures, and human review time.
- What Is Model Routing (and When Should You Downgrade)? Model routing sends each request to the cheapest model that can handle it, with a fallback. It needs per-route evaluation, not a hunch.
- What Is Prompt Caching (and How Much Does It Save)? Prompt caching reuses the model's processed prefix, charging less for repeated input. It only works when the stable part comes first.
- How to Set a Token Budget Per Task A token budget caps input, output, and retries per task. Set it from measured usage, not the model's maximum context window.
- What Is an AI Gateway? An AI gateway centralises provider keys, routing, limits, caching, logging, and fallback. It also concentrates secrets and prompts in one place.
- Jev Pricing: What a Decision Actually Costs Jev costs $0.042 per million input tokens with free output. Here is the arithmetic per decision, what makes it expensive, and how it compares with alternatives.
- Find the Money in Your Cloud Bill A beginner journey: read an itemised bill, find idle resources, right-size the workload, fix egress, and verify the saving against the next invoice.
- k3s for Vibecoders: Kubernetes on One Cheap Server, Without the Cloud Bill k3s is real Kubernetes in a single binary that runs on a $6 VPS. Learn what it bundles, how to deploy your AI-built app to it, and when a managed cluster is still the better call.
- What Is a vCPU (and Why Isn't It a Real Core)? A vCPU is a slice of a physical core shared with other customers. Learn about oversubscription, steal time, and burstable instances before you size anything.
- GPU vs CPU for AI: When Is a GPU Actually Worth It? Training needs GPUs, inference often does not, and an API call beats both for most small projects. A cost and capability comparison for AI builders.
- Why Is My Kubernetes Bill So High (and How Do I Cut It)? Most Kubernetes cost comes from control planes, idle nodes, and per-service load balancers rather than compute. Learn the line items and how to cut them.
- What Is Egress Bandwidth (and Why It Shows Up on the Bill)? Cloud providers meter traffic leaving their network far more strictly than traffic entering it. Egress is the line item that turns a free app into a monthly bill.
- What AI Coding Actually Costs Per Month Subscription seats, metered tokens, and the hidden costs of context and retries — a way to model what AI-assisted development costs a solo builder or a team.
- Kubernetes Autoscaling Explained: HPA vs VPA vs Cluster Autoscaler Kubernetes has three autoscalers that answer three different questions. Learn which one scales replicas, which resizes pods, which adds nodes, and when autoscaling is the wrong fix.
- How to Choose a VPS Size for an AI-Built App Start small, measure the right three numbers, and resize on evidence. A practical sizing procedure for the machine that runs your AI-generated app.