AI Coding Field Notes

Coding agent pricing comparison: cheapest LLM API for coding, cost per million tokens, from the OpenRouter price list as JSON and CSV.

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Cost Savings

5 of the 32 write-ups here are tagged Cost Savings. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.

The figures

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The write-ups

How Chinese AI Agent Tools Leverage 1.6 Billion Free Tokens

Chinese AI agent tools offer a game-changing strategy for independent developers to access a massive pool of 1.6 billion free tokens monthly.

The Cost-Effective Guide to Using Open Code Review for AI Programming Tools

Open Code Review is an open-source review tool built for AI-assisted development, and in benchmark tests spanning 200 real pull requests across 50 open-source repositories it scored higher on both…

1.6 Billion Free Tokens Is a Compression Ratio, Not a Strategy

OmniRoute aggregates 237 providers and advertises roughly 1.6 billion free tokens a month, and that figure is arithmetic rather than a promotion, because the RTK+Caveman layer compresses 10,000 tok…

The AI Branding Revolution: How Indie Developers Are Ditching Design Costs with AI

Chris launched WiseMindAI last year and came out of a single session with Miora’s brand visual template holding more than ten finished assets, covering color schemes, typography and social graphics…

The Hidden Costs of GPT-5.6 Model Selection: A Developer’s Real-World Guide

“Choosing the right GPT-5.6 model for your business is more about avoiding cost overruns than just picking the cheapest option.”


All 32 write-ups


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