AI Tech

Short answer: a 500-word product description is about 3,210 characters, or roughly 734 tokens. As input, that costs about $0.0001 […]

Short answer: the AI part of a support ticket is almost free, about $0.002 for a fully automated ticket on […]

Short answer: a RAG bot over 1,000 documents (about 800 tokens each) answering 15,000 questions a month on GPT-4o mini […]

Short answer: embedding a 5,000-product catalog (about 232 tokens per product) on text-embedding-3-small costs about $0.02. Four full rebuilds a […]

Ten thousand OpenAI API requests cost about $6 on GPT-4o mini and $100 on GPT-4o, assuming a typical 2,000-token prompt […]

Compare claude haiku vs sonnet cost for support bot: Haiku ~$135/mo vs Sonnet ~$270 at Day-6 defaults, plus when to escalate & token math.

Short answer: OpenAI bills per token. A typical request of 2,000 tokens in and 500 out costs about $0.0006 on […]

How I scope an AI automation project with five numbers in the proposal: tokens, volume, default model, extras, and the 3× demo case — then a hard ceiling.

How I build a budget RAG pipeline for document QA: chunking, refuse-when-empty, embedding refresh, and a cost ceiling — lessons from VisaChamp-style work.

Multi-step agents multiply input tokens on every tool loop. Cap steps, summarize history, and model the bill before you buy a research assistant by accident.