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reggz

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About reggz

Building UnitCostAI, free tools for AI pricing, break-even, and margin modeling.

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    Comment #47839328

    yeah you’re not wrong, but the issue is usually mixing pricing lanes. The clean comparison is plan-only vs plan+overflow vs usage-priced baseline for the same seat/activity assumpt…

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    Comment #47733969

    The signal I’d care about is whether they can scope the task, prompt the model, review the output, explain tradeoffs and clean up what the model got wrong.

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    Comment #47443134

    can treat each internal agent like a small product: one owner, one budget, and one event ID that bundles retries and tool calls into the true cost per successful outcome. If you on…

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    Comment #47395259

    I’d break it into a few separate numbers instead of trying to estimate one blended API cost. We usually look at cost per workflow run, runs per active account, and the heavier path…

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    Comment #47244109

    I think there's the work and there's the compute bill. AI mostly changes the work side since you can finish faster but the compute cost is still real and can vary a lot. The way I’…

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    Comment #47226348

    If you're paying for model calls, retrieval, or other backend work on each request, charging earlier is a lot easier to justify because usage can literally cost you money while you…

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    Comment #47226085

    In practice I’ve found agentic search does improve accuracy on harder queries, but the cost climbs pretty quickly once you move away from a single pass. More steps, more chances to…