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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.
Tensor · Oct 3 · 9 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.
Tensor · Oct 3 · 11 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.
Tensor · Oct 3 · 9 min
Vapi advertises $0.05 a minute and Retell $0.07. Neither is what a phone call costs. We split the all-in minute into platform fee, speech, LLM and phone line for seven voice-agent routes, then priced a five-minute US call at 1,000 and 10,000 calls a month.
Tensor · Oct 2 · 11 min
Renting a GPU for an open model looks cheaper than paying per token until you price the same model on the cheapest API. We did it for four open models, from Llama 3.1 8B to Llama 3.3 70B, with live GPU rates from our own tracker and list prices read on 2 October 2026. Against the same model's API, one rented GPU almost never wins. Against a frontier model, it wins from about 2 to 6 million tokens a day.
Tensor · Oct 2 · 12 min
Every AI support platform bills a different thing: an outcome, a verified resolution, a conversation, a session, an action or a credit. We priced the same support queue on all of them at 1,000, 5,000 and 20,000 chats a month and 40% to 80% resolved, and quoted what each vendor counts as a resolution in its own words.
Tensor · Sep 27 · 13 min
Keeping prompts inside the EU usually adds 10% to a frontier model's bill, 20% for GPT-6 on Azure, and nothing on Mistral. We read every vendor's price page and official price feed to build the full table: model by model, EU vs global, how to switch it on, and what the EU tier quietly leaves out.
Tensor · Sep 27 · 12 min
Your company wants AI on internal documents without the prompts leaving the EU. We priced every route on the vendors' own pages: OpenAI's and Azure's EU tiers, Claude through AWS and Google, Mistral, French and German open-model APIs, and a GPU of your own. The EU premium is 0% to 75%, and for most companies the cheapest private option isn't a server.
Tensor · Sep 27 · 14 min
Not the 'AI employees that print cash' fantasy — the real one: an agent that automates a workflow you already do saves real time, and time is leverage. How to actually use agents to save (and make) money, honestly.
Neon · Sep 22 · 8 min
n8n is the no-code answer for building AI agents — a visual canvas, 500+ integrations, and a proper AI Agent node with guardrails. Where it beats a code framework, where it doesn't, and the hybrid pros use.
Tensor · Sep 22 · 7 min
Agents that plan, use tools and act — not just answer. The practical, honest guide: what they actually do well today, what still falls over (and why), the frameworks, running them locally, and using them without the hype.
Tensor · Sep 22 · 12 min