If you can't count the unit, you can't compare the price

By Anwar Benhamada · August 16, 2026

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This site is called Price Per Prompt, which only works as an idea if somebody tells you how many prompts you get. Reading four pricing pages back to back, it turns out roughly half of them do.

The ones that name a number

Make sells credits and defines them on the pricing page:

Each module action in your scenario, like adding a Google Sheet row or fetching Gmail account data, counts as one credit.

Their entry plan is 10,000 credits a month. So I can open a scenario, count the modules, multiply by how often it runs, and know before paying whether 10,000 is plenty or nowhere near enough.

n8n sells workflow executions: 2,500 a month on Starter, 10,000 on Pro, with unlimited steps inside each one. Same deal. Countable in advance, and the “unlimited steps” part means a complex workflow doesn’t cost more than a simple one, which is a real difference from per-step billing.

ElevenLabs sells credits too: 10,000 on the free tier, 30,000 on Starter, 121,000 on Creator. Whether that’s enough depends on how many minutes of audio a credit buys, which is a second question, but at least the first number exists.

The one that doesn’t

Cursor’s Pro plan, at $20 a month, lists this:

Extended limits on Agent

Extended past what? The tier above it says:

3x Pro limits on Agent

And the one above that:

20x Pro limits on Agent

So Pro+ is three times Pro, and Ultra is twenty times Pro, and Pro is never stated. It’s a ratio to an unpublished base. Three times an unknown is still an unknown.

Their own FAQ suggests plans by vibe rather than volume: Pro+ “for daily agent users”, Ultra “for agent power users”. I’m a daily agent user by any reasonable definition, and that sentence tells me nothing about whether I’ll hit a wall on a Tuesday.

Why I care about this more than the price

$20 is not a lot of money. That’s not the issue.

The issue is that an undefined limit can’t be planned around, and the failure mode isn’t a bill, it’s a stop. Metered tools that run out tell you in advance because you were watching the counter. Tools with soft, unnamed limits just get slower or start refusing partway through something you were in the middle of, and you find out by hitting it.

If you’re using one of these for anything with a deadline attached, that distinction matters more than the monthly figure.

What to do with a plan that won’t name the unit

Ask support, in writing, what the limit is in requests or tokens per month. Save the reply. Some vendors will tell you even when the page doesn’t.

If nobody will say, treat the tier as untestable and buy the cheapest one that could possibly work, then watch when it degrades. That gives you a real number for your usage even if the vendor won’t publish theirs. It’s annoying that this is the workaround, but it beats budgeting from an adjective.

And if two tools do the same job and one publishes a countable unit, that’s a genuine reason to prefer it. Not because the other is worse software. Because one of them you can plan with.

We list entry prices on every tool we cover, and we’re building the measured run counts that turn those prices into a cost per unit of work. Where a vendor doesn’t publish a limit, we say so rather than guessing at one. The methodology page covers what we measure and what we refuse to estimate.

Quotes above are from the vendors’ own pricing pages on 16 August 2026.