Aliteq · since 2019
Aliteq started in 2019 as a PC hardware shop and is now a US-based publication. We build the VRAM and cost calculators on this site, track live cloud-GPU prices, and write guides with AI-assisted drafting that we check against primary sources before publishing.
Java 27 shipped on 15 September 2026 with three default changes and four finished features. It is a six-month release, so the real question is whether to move from Java 25 now or wait for the next long-term one.
Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 8 min
A script can press your sign-up or AI button thousands of times, and you pay for each press. Where the limits already exist (Supabase Auth, Cloudflare), where they don't, and the spending cap that stops the bill.
Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 7 min
One person on one machine, or a team hitting one server? That single question decides it. Then licence, GPU and Mac support, and the API your app talks to, all read from each project's own docs.
Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 9 min
Olympiad golds, Erdős problems, a disproved 87-year-old conjecture and a better Riemann bound. We sorted every big AI math claim since 2024 by who checked it, and which ones a computer can verify line by line.
Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 11 min
Seven mixture-of-experts models, from gpt-oss 20B to Qwen3 235B, split into what stays on your card and what moves to system RAM. The card barely changes. The RAM you need goes from 16 GB to 96 GB.
Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 10 min
Your Radeon or Arc card can make AI images. The trick is picking the right backend, because three of the seven options are dead ends. We read ComfyUI's code, AMD's ROCm docs and Intel's PyTorch guide to sort them, then matched FLUX, SD 3.5 and SDXL to each card size.
Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 10 min
I mapped every Mac mini and Mac Studio Apple sells today, all 17 configs, against 13 popular local AI models. If your biggest model is 27B-class, the math says a $1,299 Mac mini holds what a $3,099 Mac Studio holds.
Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 16 min
Beginners know they're lost, and experts can read what the AI wrote. The people in trouble are in the middle: they can prompt an app into existence but can't read what came back. So they pull the lever again. Here's the loop, the evidence, and the way out.
Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 15 min
Andrej Karpathy shared an idea file for a notes folder the AI writes and maintains, so you stop re-explaining your documents every time you ask a question. Here is what it says, how it works, and where it can go wrong.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 8 min
The model is only one part of an agent. The loop, the tools, the permissions and the memory around it are the harness, and in 2026 OpenAI, Anthropic and Mitchell Hashimoto all described fixing agents there instead of in the prompt. Here is what that means and where the name came from.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min
A hook is a small script Claude Code runs for you at fixed moments, such as before a tool call or when Claude finishes. Here is every piece in Anthropic's docs that matters: events, matchers, exit codes, JSON, where the file lives, and the security warning.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min
Google Cloud's new spec for agent knowledge is a folder of markdown files with a few lines of YAML on top. Here is what is in the file, what v0.2 added, and where it differs from a vector index.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 8 min
Article 50 has applied since 2 August 2026. If your chatbot or voice agent talks to people in the EU, the first duty is simple: tell them it is an AI. Here is the full checklist, who owes what, and the fine tier.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 9 min
One app is free forever. All apps cost €19.90 to €44.90 a user a month. Here is the three-year bill at 5, 20 and 50 users, with the self-hosted route priced honestly.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min
A locked copy that ransomware cannot delete is the cheap part of a modern backup plan, unless you pick the wrong storage. Monthly bills for Backblaze B2, Wasabi, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2 and Hetzner at three sizes, with the minimum-storage and restore charges that change the answer. Prices read from each vendor on 3 October 2026.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 14 min
On a $29 plan the spread between the cheapest and priciest merchant of record is $1.87 a sale. Every published fee, what each one adds on top, and why the lowest headline rate isn't always the cheapest.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min
A US buyer sends a SOC 2 request. A German buyer sends an ISO 27001 one. Here is what each proof is, who asks for which on the auditors' own pages, what sellers publish for the cost, and when one control program can feed both.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 12 min
Plain OCR costs $1.50 per 1,000 pages on all three clouds. Invoices cost $10 on two and $100 on the third. We priced text, forms with tables and invoices per page, then checked the LLM-vision shortcut.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min
Seven CRMs now document a vendor-run MCP server. They differ on plan gates, whether you can start read-only, and how many requests an AI can make a second.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 9 min
Most of a surprise AWS bill is not the servers you picked. It is the NAT gateway, the traffic, the logs and the forgotten disks around them. Every price here comes from AWS's own price files, read on 3 October 2026, with the Cost Explorer view that finds each one.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 17 min
A merchant of record costs a few hundred dollars a month at $10k MRR, and you only get that money back if filing yourself costs less. The break-even formula, a table for four filing costs, and the question that comes first: do you owe tax at all?
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 10 min
Sellers publish $5,000 to $30,000 for a web or SaaS app test and $9,500 and up for an AI chatbot. Many firms print nothing at all. Here is what each firm's own page says, what moves the quote, and what a SOC 2 auditor looks for.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 13 min
Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Google AI Studio, Cursor, Claude Code and Antigravity all get lumped together. Their own documentation describes two different kinds of tool. A table of each one's own words, and two questions that narrow the choice.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 7 min
Lovable describes itself as a platform that builds and deploys web apps from plain English. Its own docs say where the app is hosted, what the built-in backend is, where your code sits and how you pay. A plain-language tour, from the docs.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 6 min
Google's own documentation uses the words "vibe code" for AI Studio's Build mode. It also says what happens to your API key when you deploy, and who can see your code when you share. Here's what it builds, and the checks Google's pages leave to you.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 7 min
ChatGPT Business and Claude Team are both $20 a seat on annual billing. Microsoft's Copilot add-on looks cheaper at $18 but needs a Microsoft 365 license under it. We priced four AI seat plans at 10, 25 and 50 users and read each vendor's data terms.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 9 min
At list price Attio Pro is cheaper at every seat count. It flips when you need SSO, and again when both startup programs apply, because Attio's discount stops at 10 seats.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 9 min
Broadcom publishes no per-core price, so nobody can hand you a VMware total. We can price the Proxmox side to the dollar, count the 96 cores you would license on VMware, and show the one per-core quote that makes the two equal.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min
A US SaaS or AI app owes EU VAT from the first consumer sale, and the €10,000 threshold you keep reading about isn't yours. How the non-Union One-Stop Shop works, when reverse charge saves you, and what a $29 plan keeps after German VAT.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min
Four of the five hide their price behind a demo, and none of them sells you the SOC 2 opinion. What each platform publishes about cost, the audit, frameworks and the tools a vibe-coded stack uses, read on each vendor's own site on 3 October 2026.
Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 12 min