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• Show HN: FiscaLLM:open-source per-user AI cost for subscription apps · score 6.8

  FiscaLLM is an open-source tool that tracks per-user AI costs for subscription apps by instrumenting AI calls and joining token usage with revenue data. It provides dashboards, budgets, alerts, and spending caps, addressing a real gap in understanding unit economics for AI-powered products. The project offers SDKs in TypeScript and Python, along with self-hosting options.

• Show HN: DeepSeek's flagship got the same answers right and cost 9X per success · score 6.5

  A benchmark harness that measures the real cost per correct answer for LLMs across multiple providers, accounting for retries, reasoning tokens, and failed calls. It includes 16 code-checked tasks (plus a harder tier) with deterministic generated data, budget-capped runs, and resumable execution. It addresses a genuine gap in LLM evaluation by shifting focus from per-token price to cost-per-success.

• Show HN: What your Claude Code subscription would cost at API prices · score 6.5

  A Claude Code plugin that displays real-time API-equivalent costs for AI usage right above the prompt, pulling from local transcripts and subscription metadata. It offers an invoice view, plan multiplier comparisons, and session/billing-cycle breakdowns, all privacy-preserving with no network calls.

• Show HN: Side-by-side California ADU cost ledger (800 vs. 400 sq ft) · score 5.0

  Every Line Item is a browser-based tool for comparing contractor quotes for California ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) projects against published benchmarks. It helps homeowners identify missing cost items, allowances, and questions to ask before signing a contract, using a six-phase ledger model.

Recent titles

1. Shops looted as German cost of living protests turn violent
   2026-11-01 · bbc.com · HN discussion
2. The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
   2026-11-01 · nolanlawson.com · HN discussion
3. Show HN: DeepSeek's flagship got the same answers right and cost 9X per success
   2026-10-31 · github.com · HN discussion
4. College will only cost $20 a month
   2026-10-31 · idiallo.com · HN discussion
5. Show HN: Free OCR Cost Calculator – Estimate multi-provider LLM token costs
   2026-10-31 · ocrbench.app · HN discussion
6. Anthropic's IPO Date Could Cost Its Employees a Year of Tax Life
   2026-10-31 · forbes.com · HN discussion
7. Jason Schreier of Bloomberg: "Gears of War: E-Day cost $500M to Xbox" [video]
   2026-10-30 · youtube.com · HN discussion
8. Cost of living protests to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Halloween
   2026-10-30 · theguardian.com · HN discussion
9. Annual US debt interest cost
   2026-10-30 · usdebt.watch · HN discussion
10. US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears
    2026-10-30 · bbc.co.uk · HN discussion
11. What to know about the cost of Halloween this year
    2026-10-30 · text.npr.org · HN discussion
12. Show HN: I don't understand why invoicing apps cost $10/month
    2026-10-30 · invoicingpro.org · HN discussion
13. Dell workstation with 96GB Nvidia GPU may cost less than graphics card alone
    2026-10-30 · videocardz.com · HN discussion
14. GitHub Copilot Fusion orchestrates between models at half the cost
    2026-10-30 · twitter.com · HN discussion
15. Cloud Cost Optimization for Dev and Staging. A Practical Guide
    2026-10-29 · idlefy.medium.com · HN discussion
16. The Invisible Cost of Digital Infrastructure
    2026-10-28 · medium.com · HN discussion
17. The Cost of AI in Code: Goodbye, Fingerspitzengefühl?
    2026-10-28 · architecturenotes.co · HN discussion
18. Snowflake built-in tags for credit chargeback by cost center [video]
    2026-10-27 · youtube.com · HN discussion
19. Anti-Circumvention Laws Raise the Cost of Knowledge
    2026-10-27 · eff.org · HN discussion
20. Open AI vs. frontier models: the hidden cost of your data (2026)
    2026-10-27 · lucasaguiar.xyz · HN discussion
21. AI models cost more when you don't use English
    2026-10-26 · restofworld.org · HN discussion
22. Tokensaver, see which parts of your LLM prompt cost money
    2026-10-26 · github.com · HN discussion
23. How Much Does Custom Software Development Cost in the UK?
    2026-10-24 · bitechnology.co.uk · HN discussion
24. The long-overlookedperformance cost in document parsing:Reading Order
    2026-10-23 · somark.ai · HN discussion
25. Show HN: The cost of slop. Subscription-adjusted
    2026-10-23 · slopsidy.com · HN discussion
26. The Signal Chats That Cost OpenAI Researchers Their Jobs
    2026-10-23 · wsj.com · HN discussion
27. Show HN: FiscaLLM:open-source per-user AI cost for subscription apps
    2026-10-22 · github.com · HN discussion
28. State of IaaS and Compute 2026: market benchmark and cost analysis
    2026-10-22 · cloudcompare.dev · HN discussion
29. We asked an agent to log 40 messages on 3 CRMs via MCP. One cost 4x as much
    2026-10-21 · goodtiming.ai · HN discussion
30. Ask HN: Are Models Getting Better at Software Estimations of Time/Effort/Cost?
    2026-10-21 · HN discussion

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