Stories from the gateway
Cost & Pricing
The Cost of AI in CI: Why Pipelines Multiply Your Spend
A model call in CI runs on every push, every branch and every matrix leg. The arithmetic behind that multiplication and the gates that keep it bounded.
· 11 min read
Models
The DeepSeek V4 Family Explained: Pro, Flash and When
Two models, one release date, a 3x gap in active parameters and a 3x gap in price. How to split traffic between DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash sensibly.
· 9 min read
Cost & Pricing
The Electricity Cost of Inference: Estimate It Yourself
· 8 min read
Cost & Pricing
The Hidden Cost of Failed Runs: Tokens Spent on Nothing
· 8 min readCost & Pricing
The Hidden Cost of Retries: Paying Twice for the Same Answer
· 8 min read
Fundamentals
The Lost-in-the-Middle Problem: Position Beats Relevance
· 8 min read
AI Agents
The MCP Security Model: Trust Boundaries You Actually Have
· 9 min read
Models
The MiniMax Family Explained: M3 and Native Multimodality
· 9 min read
Models
The Moonshot Kimi Family Explained: K2.6 and K3
· 9 min read
Models
The Qwen Family Explained: The Models You Can Own
· 9 min read
Cost & Pricing
The Real Cost of Migrating Between Model Providers
· 10 min read
Cost & Pricing
The Real Cost of Open vs Closed Models
· 8 min read
Cost & Pricing
The ROI of Flat-Rate Billing for AI Development Work
· 9 min readCost & Pricing
The Self-Hosting Break-Even Point, With Honest Inputs
· 9 min readReady to start?
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