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Tags cut across the blog’s categories: the articles below approach cost from whichever angle their subject demanded — a pricing breakdown, a benchmark reading, a migration note, or a postmortem from running something in production. They are ordered newest first, so the top of the list reflects where our current thinking sits rather than where it started.
Token prices converted to rands are the start of an AI budget, not the end of it. Where the gap opens between the pricing page and the invoice — output ratios, context re-billing, agent loops, forex, card fees and VAT.
In a multi-turn conversation, every earlier message is re-sent on every new turn. Cost grows with the square of conversation length. Here is the math, and four ways to bend the curve back down.
Several of the fastest-moving open-weights releases of the last two years came out of Chinese labs. Ignoring them means overpaying for capability you could have had. A field guide to the ecosystem most Western tooling still treats as an afterthought.
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