AI economics
Claude Code pricing 2026: real 30-day bill for a solo dev, a team, and an agency
Three real 30-day Claude Code bills, the 5.5x token-efficiency math, and when the $200 Max plan beats the API.
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Diego Aguirre
pricing
How to price AI features in SaaS without blowing your gross margin (June 2026)
A 1,500 customer SaaS shipped AI features and watched gross margin fall from 81% to 47%. We walk three pricing ladders and the COGS math that got it back to 73% in 8 weeks.
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AI cost
True cost of running an LLM workflow in 2026
The sticker price per token is the smallest line in your LLM bill. Once you add retries, embeddings, vector reads, orchestration, and the platform margin, a "simple" agent workflow lands around $0.42 per run, roughly 4× the raw model cost. This breakdown shows where the money actually goes and which three levers cut a workflow bill the fastest without touching quality.
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