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AI Stack Costs

Every subscription and API that keeps the machine running. Updated manually from billing dashboards.

Updated: 21 April 2026
£1,468
Confirmed floor/mo
Excl. unknowns
£1,580
Realistic total/mo
Inc. estimated unknowns
£336
Twilio (shock)
Was recorded as £40
£570
Anthropic API peak
Post-fix: ~£100-150
9
Services tracked
+5 unknowns
Confirmed from billing

Confirmed Monthly Costs

All figures in GBP. Sources: billing dashboards and API pulls.

Twilio
Watch
£336
April projected (21-day run rate)
↑ 8x higher than the £40 estimate on record
Outbound voice minutes are the dominant line: £203 in 21 days. Buggy Smart (175 calls × 2 runs/day × ~3-4 min) is the driver. March (8 days only): £120. Rate: ~1.4p/min outbound.
Anthropic API
Stabilising
£570
April peak rate (pre-fix)
↓ Post-fix projected: ~£100-150/mo
Peaked at $23.73/day after unauthenticated /run endpoint let webinar attendees trigger free Opus runs. Fixed 2026-04-19 with password gate + Sonnet switch. Verify billing confirms the drop by 2026-04-28.
ElevenLabs
Watch
£263
Per month (jumped from £79 in March)
↑ 3.3x jump in April (upgraded plan)
Covers all voice agents: Buggy Smart (Poppy), First Order (Alice), Moshi, Queue Index. If Buggy Smart call volume grows further, this goes up again.
Claude Code Max
Stable
£180
Per month (Max 20x plan)
— No overage in April. Zero extra charges.
Was causing major overage in Feb-Mar (£869 in March alone). Ghost agents + settings bloat fixed in March. Renews 17th monthly. Extra usage auto-reloads at £5, tops to £15.
Netlify
Improving
£160
Per month (~$20 base + top-ups)
↓ Improving after deploy-frequency fix (2026-04-17)
Was 26.7 deploys/day. Fixes cut daily-bake cascade + culture brief redeploy. Now ~18/day. Top-up: $10 per trigger (was every 1.7 days, improving to ~2.5 days). Saves ~£50/mo.
GitHub Actions
Watch
£80
Per month (capped at $100)
↑ Doubled twice: $30 → $50 → $100
Growing with every new automated pipeline added. Understand root cause before it doubles again. 7 active workflows.
Ghost Publisher
Cancel
£23
Per month ($348/yr)
↑ No active use. All blogging moved to mikelitman.me.
litmans-lens.ghost.io. Publisher Yearly plan. Cancelling saves £276/yr. Nothing published here since blog platform decision.
GoDaddy
Estimated
£30
Per month equiv (~20 domains)
— Annual renewals spread across year
~20 domains at £15-25/yr each = ~£300-500/yr (~£25-40/mo equiv). Worth auditing for inactive projects that can be dropped.
Railway
Estimated
~£18
Per month (estimated)
— 3 active apps. Hobby: $5/mo per project + usage.
The System pipeline, Voice Booking WOW, Queue Index. Estimated £12-24/mo depending on usage. Check billing dashboard.
Confirmed monthly floor
£1,468
Realistic total: £1,520-1,640/mo
The real number is £300+ higher than it was 30 days ago. Twilio was the shock item: recorded as £40, actually £336. Anthropic API should drop post-fix. Ghost should be cancelled.
Need checking

Unconfirmed Costs

Pull from each billing page to complete the picture.

Vercel
Est. £0-16/mo
vercel.com/account/billing
Plausible
Est. £7-15/mo
plausible.io/settings
Buttondown
Est. £0-7/mo
buttondown.email/settings
Supabase
Est. £0-20/mo
supabase.com/dashboard
OpenAI
Unknown
platform.openai.com
Brevo
Likely free tier
app.brevo.com
Action required

Spend Alerts

Ordered by urgency

1
Twilio: £336/mo and structural
Was recorded as ~£40 -- actual is 8x higher. Outbound voice (Buggy Smart: 175 calls × 2 runs/day × 3-4 min) is the driver at ~1.4p/min. This cost grows with call volume. Either cap daily volume or accept it as Buggy Smart operating cost. Not a bug -- a feature with a price.
2
Anthropic API: verify the fix worked
Was $23.73/day ($570/mo). Root cause fixed 2026-04-19 (password gate + Sonnet switch). Check billing page by 2026-04-28. If still above $10/day, something else is driving it. Target: £100-150/mo for legitimate use.
3
Ghost Publisher: cancel and save £276/year
All blogging moved to mikelitman.me/blog. Ghost is £23/month with zero active use. Nothing to migrate -- content is already elsewhere. Just cancel.
4
GitHub Actions: understand before it doubles again
Went $30 to $50 to £100 cap in quick succession. Now at the cap. Audit which workflows are burning the most minutes before adding more pipelines.
5
Fill in the unknowns
Vercel, Plausible, Buttondown, Supabase, OpenAI, Brevo are all unconfirmed. Check each billing page and update subscriptions.md. The real total could be £100-200 higher than the current confirmed floor.