costs

39 stories and discussions about costs, aggregated from every source we track.

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Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.

1788 points•km144•8 days ago•1109 comments•
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.

879 points•D2OQZG8l5BI1S06•2 days ago•609 comments•
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Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.

273 points•throwaway371647•8 days ago•2 comments•
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52 points•6thbit•2 days ago•55 comments•
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GNOME and KDE have started to consider LLM policies, and we should talk about what this is really about. KDE caught everyone's attention first by...

24 points•FedericoSchonborn•6 days ago•34 comments
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A local-first CLI that scans Google Cloud projects for unused resources, prices each one from the Cloud Billing Catalog API, and drafts the cleanup. One call per project instead of one per region, read-only by default, and a Claude Code plugin over the same engine.

12 points•xbill•8 days ago•1 comment
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8 points•yolandac•about 9 hours ago•4 comments•
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8 points•EA-3167•about 23 hours ago•2 comments•
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4 points•neehao•3 days ago•1 comment•
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GNOME and KDE have started to consider LLM policies, and we should talk about what this is really about. KDE caught everyone's attention first by...

4 points•eustoria•6 days ago•0 comments•
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The $15.6 billion legal startup Harvey built its business around training AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 to do specialized work for lawyers. Recently, however, soaring artificial intelligence costs have nudged it to…

3 points•joennlae•6 days ago•2 comments•
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Modern silicon solar cells could cut satellite power costs by up to 90 per cent and halve cell weight, a Surrey-led review finds. Find out more.

3 points•giuliomagnifico•8 days ago•1 comment•
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2 points•rzk•about 16 hours ago•0 comments•
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OpenAI announced a $500 a month plan for ChatGPT. The company also downgraded the compute allowance of its $200 a month plan.

2 points•giosch•about 20 hours ago•0 comments•
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Tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement in the United States. $1,563,000.00 in CA settlements and counting.

2 points•pavel_lishin•1 day ago•1 comment•
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2 points•BiraIgnacio•2 days ago•1 comment•
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When to choose Sonnet over Opus, what it costs, and how to tune it.

2 points•pretext•2 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•gbocs•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital use of AI tools led to an additional $942M in healthcare spending over a two-year period.

2 points•sbulaev•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Real-time AI API cost intelligence and guardrails for AI-native applications. Monitor usage, forecast burn, and prevent runaway costs.

2 points•Akhil__Anand•6 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•mooreds•6 days ago•0 comments•
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277 runs of Claude Code, Codex, and pi on bug fixes from my own repos: an 80x cost spread, speed sorted by harness, and a sandbox setting that hid failures behind green scores.

2 points•ariwilson•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Tool definitions are billed on every turn, and past roughly thirty tools they start costing you accuracy rather than just money.

2 points•charrington•8 days ago•0 comments•
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Model providers now advertise context windows large enough to hold a codebase or a stack of contracts...

2 points•digitalocean_staff•9 days ago•0 comments
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1 points•cheschire•1 day ago•0 comments•
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A record of what an AI agent actually did, kept where the agent cannot edit it. AppendOnly by 5R Industries.

1 points•adrianoutlaw•1 day ago•0 comments•
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The prospectus details how Anthropic has grown sharply in the last year — while also posting wider losses.

1 points•oscarfr•1 day ago•0 comments•
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PostgreSQL 19 comes with online table rewrites. Measured against pg_repack and pg_squeeze REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) is the fastest and the lightest on WAL under writes. Here's what it does to vacuum, readers, writers and…

1 points•hnp9j9qtda•1 day ago•0 comments•
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What a VM for your agent actually costs per month across 13 providers including E2B, Modal, Daytona, Sprites, exe.dev and boat. Prices re-checked weekly.

1 points•theMackabu•2 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•warthog•2 days ago•0 comments•
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We’ve talked several times on this substack (as well as in my book), about the learning curve, the observation that costs of a produced good tend to fall by some constant proportion for every cumulative doubling of…

1 points•7777777phil•2 days ago•0 comments•
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GNOME and KDE have started to consider LLM policies, and we should talk about what this is really about. KDE caught everyone's attention first by...

1 points•birdculture•4 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•Alien1Being•6 days ago•0 comments•
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Butter's BBQ in Sinton pulls brisket from its daily menu as prices near $50/lb. Beef cheek steps in as the new star.

1 points•randycupertino•6 days ago•0 comments•
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A local-first CLI that scans Azure subscriptions for unused resources, prices each one from the Azure Retail Prices API, and drafts the cleanup. One call per subscription across every tenant you are signed into, read-only by default, and a Claude Code plugin over the same engine.

1 points•xbill•6 days ago•2 comments
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Contribute to 0xsims/rubric-attest development by creating an account on GitHub.

1 points•RubricProtocol•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Meta CPMs rise through Q4 and collapse after Christmas. What third-party datasets report about the curve, how to convert it into a budget decision, and the mistake that wastes the cheapest inventory of the year.

1 points•canermoraly•9 days ago•0 comments•
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Tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement in the United States. $1,563,000.00 in CA settlements and counting.

-4 points•fancybone•1 day ago•0 comments

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