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Teardowns
Every tool here bills on a different meter. These break the pricing down to one comparable number, from the vendor's own page, with the date we read it.
Comparisons & buying guides
Tools run against the same task set, then priced at the usage you actually have.
- Hostinger Horizons pricing: it is not called that anymore Search for Hostinger Horizons pricing and you land on a rebrand. What AI Builder actually costs, and why its credit math is nearly impossible to predict. 2026-08-23
- Murf AI pricing: the 24-month commission isn't a 24-month cookie Murf pays affiliates 20% recurring for 24 months, but the referral link itself only tracks for 90 days. Two different numbers, easy to mix up. 2026-08-23
- Fireflies AI pricing: why your AI credits are a one-time grant Fireflies lists 20-50 AI credits per plan, but they're a one-time grant at signup, not a monthly refill. Spend them and you're quietly moved to a paid add-on. 2026-08-22
- Zapier pricing: why a step and a task aren't the same thing Zapier bills by the task, but a lead router step costs 5 tasks and a premium AI step costs 5 too. The unit moves under you depending on what you build. 2026-08-22
- Best AI video editor apps, and how each one actually bills you Four tools, four pricing models: a seat, a credit pool, an unverified tier, and a price that depends on your region. Here is which you are actually buying. 2026-08-19
- ElevenLabs API pricing: the pay-as-you-go rate versus the credit pool ElevenLabs also sells raw API access with no subscription. For standard TTS and no-watermark dubbing, the per-unit rate beats the credit-pool plans. 2026-08-17
- ElevenLabs pricing: one credit pool, five different burn rates ElevenLabs prices everything in credits, which sounds precise. Text-to-speech, dubbing, and music draw from the same pool at wildly different rates. 2026-08-17
- n8n pricing: why Business costs 16x for 4x the runs n8n prices Starter and Pro by the execution, fairly. Then Business jumps 16x in price for 4x the volume — you're paying for SSO and governance, not more runs. 2026-08-17
- Descript pricing: media hours are the number that matters Descript bills per person and per media hour and per AI credit. The tier you land on is decided by hours and 4K export, not by the headline price. 2026-08-16
- The cheapest automation tool for a small team These platforms bill per task, so your cost tracks activity rather than value. Here is what that means at real volume and which pricing model survives it. 2026-08-07
- Best AI coding assistant for a real codebase Every one of these demos well on a small clean project. Here is how they differ on a mature repo, and the criteria that actually predict which you will keep. 2026-08-07
Teardowns
How these products meter you, and where each pricing model stops making sense.
- If you can't count the unit, you can't compare the price Some AI tools sell you a countable quantity. Others sell a multiple of a number they never publish. Only one of those can be budgeted for. 2026-08-16
- Six ways to cut an AI API bill without losing quality Most AI spend goes on easy work sent to expensive models. Here are the changes that cut cost most, roughly in order of how much they save. 2026-08-07
- Where browser agents actually work, and where they don't Agents that drive a browser demo brilliantly and fail in production for predictable reasons. Here is the line between the two, and how to test for it. 2026-08-06
- The AI subscription stack nobody audits Nine tools at twenty dollars each is a real budget line. Here is a thirty-minute audit that usually finds half of it is redundant or unused. 2026-08-06
- Use the API or buy the wrapper tool? Most AI products are a UI over a model you could call yourself. Here is how to work out whether the markup is buying you something real. 2026-08-06
- What AI transcription actually costs at scale Per-minute pricing looks trivial until you multiply it by a back catalogue. Here is the real cost model and where accuracy differences stop mattering. 2026-08-06
- How to evaluate an AI tool before you pay for it Vendor demos are run on inputs chosen to make the tool look good. Here is a two-hour evaluation that tells you whether it works on your actual work. 2026-08-06
- Writing prompts that survive model updates Your prompt works today and breaks when the model changes underneath you. Here is what makes a prompt fragile, and the patterns that hold up across versions. 2026-08-06
- Rate limits are the constraint nobody plans for Your workflow works at ten runs and dies at a thousand. Here is how AI tool rate limits actually behave and how to design around them before you hit one. 2026-08-06
- When self-hosting an AI model is worth it Running your own model looks cheaper per token and rarely is. Here are the three situations where it genuinely wins, and the costs people leave out. 2026-08-06
- Why AI coding tools fall apart on large codebases They demo on small projects for a reason. Here is what changes at scale, and the working patterns that keep them useful anyway. 2026-08-06
- Why AI writing tools all sound the same They converge on the same voice for structural reasons. Here is what causes it, which fixes actually work, and when the tool is the wrong choice entirely. 2026-08-06