Toolglade articles tagged with Ai Cost.
OpenAI's Dots have no free tier: one dot comes with the $100/mo ChatGPT Pro plan, and each dot runs continuously on its own cloud computer. That "always-on" design is the whole value — and the whole cost question. Here's how to decide if a Dot earns its keep.
One Grok Bot routine on a 5-minute clock wakes up about 8,640 times a month. At Grok 4.7 API rates that is roughly 12x the compute of the same job run hourly — mostly on runs where nothing happened. Here is how to pick the schedule, trigger on events, and run safely overnight.