AArshad·Sep 21Same Business. Same AI. Why Could the Kerala Version Cost More to Run?Why Malayalam AI can use more tokens than English and what that means for the cost of running AI applications in Kerala.4 min read·blog.arshadakl.in
MManu Shukla·Aug 20Vercel AI Gateway's 18 September 2026 audio cliff: TTS bills per UTF-8 byte, not per characterVercel AI Gateway's 18 September 2026 audio cliff: TTS bills per UTF-8 byte, not per character Summary. Vercel put every Fish Audio model on AI Gateway free for 30 days on 19 August 2026, and its chan14 min read·ecorpit.hashnode.dev
MManu Shukla·Aug 3Datadog LLM Observability pricing 2026: 6 levers that cap the billDatadog LLM Observability pricing 2026: 6 levers that cap the bill Summary. Datadog's LLM Observability product, now branded Agent Observability in its own documentation, meters exactly one thing: the21 min read·ecorpit.hashnode.dev
MManu Shukla·Jul 29Claude Sonnet 5 migration: the September 1, 2026 price cliff and the 30% tokenizer jump to plan forClaude Sonnet 5 migration: the September 1, 2026 price cliff and the 30% tokenizer jump to plan for Summary. Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026 with introductory pricing of \(2 per mi15 min read·ecorpit.hashnode.dev
MManu Shukla·Jul 26Claude Opus 5 effort levels: cut token costs with 5 reasoning dials (2026)Claude Opus 5 effort levels: cut token costs with 5 reasoning dials (2026) Summary. Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on 24 July 2026 at \(5 per million input tokens and \)25 per million output tokens,15 min read·ecorpit.hashnode.dev
MManu Shukla·Jul 16Kimi K2.7 Code costs $0.95/M in GitHub Copilot and loses 6 of 6 benchmarks to GPT-5.5Kimi K2.7 Code costs $0.95/M in GitHub Copilot and loses 6 of 6 benchmarks to GPT-5.5 Summary. GitHub made Kimi K2.7 Code generally available in Copilot on 1 July 2026, calling it "the first open-weig16 min read·ecorpit.hashnode.dev
VVamsi Krishna·Jul 1Day 40: Why autonomy needs budgetsWhy autonomous systems need limits on cost, time, actions, retries, and risk.3 min read·blog.vamsiannamreddy.com
MMohit Verma·Mar 29Stop Paying for Reasoning: A Decision Tree for Choosing the Right Model Across 5 Task ClassesCut LLM costs 40x with a decision tree that routes tasks by reasoning depth. 87% cost reduction, <3% accuracy loss. Learn the routing logic.2 min read·aiwithmohit.hashnode.dev
