Stories from the gateway
Cost & Pricing
Agent Cost Attribution: Tracing Spend Back to a Cause
A provider bill tells you the total and nothing else. How to attribute agent spend to a team, a task and a tool call so you can act on it.
· 9 min readCost & Pricing
AI Cost Anomaly Detection That Catches Real Problems
How to spot abnormal LLM spend in token data: per-workload baselines, rate-of-change thresholds, and telling a runaway agent apart from real growth.
· 11 min readCost & Pricing
Alerting on Token Spikes Before the Invoice Explains Them
· 8 min readCost & Pricing
Batch API Savings: Trading Latency for a Real Discount
· 8 min readCost & Pricing
Budgeting for Experimentation Without a Surprise Bill
· 12 min readCost & Pricing
Chargeback Models for AI Spend That Teams Accept
· 11 min readCost & Pricing
Comparing Provider Pricing Models Without Getting Fooled
· 8 min readCost & Pricing
Context Bloat: Paying Repeatedly for Tokens Nobody Reads
· 8 min readCost & Pricing
Cost Per 1K Lines of Code: A Tempting, Mostly Bad Metric
· 9 min readCost & Pricing
Cost Per Agent Run: Why Input Dominates the Bill
· 9 min readCost & Pricing
Cost Per Code Review: What Automated Review Actually Costs
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Cost Per Refactor: Estimating a Multi-File Change Up Front
· 10 min readCost & Pricing
Cost Per Test Suite: Writing Tests Versus Fixing Them
· 10 min readCost & Pricing
Designing an AI Spend Dashboard People Actually Read
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