What to do when an AI vendor changes its pricing

Price changes on models and workflow tools arrive every few months. A short routine for finding out what it does to your daily workflows before the invoice does.

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What happened

This is a recurring event rather than a single one: model providers adjust per-token prices, introduce cheaper tiers, retire older models, and change the price of features like batch processing or cached input. Workflow tools change per-run or per-task pricing. These changes land in a changelog or an email that is easy to miss.

Why it matters

A scheduled workflow is a subscription you wrote yourself. If a daily job's model gets 30 percent more expensive, nothing in the workflow tells you; the next invoice does. The reverse is also true: a cheaper tier may make a workflow you shelved for cost worth running again.

What you can try

A fifteen-minute routine, once a month or whenever a pricing email arrives:

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We run this routine on the workflows behind this site. The most common finding is not the price change itself; it is a workflow that quietly grew its input over months, so the change hits harder than the percentage suggests.

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