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ACG Tools
Six shareable tools for the same audience: developers running AI coding agents who care about token cost. Pick a link for the channel you're posting to — every path still leads to budget control.
LLM Pricing Leaderboard
Official list prices, sorted by value
Compare OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Other API list prices — sorted by value.
GPT-6 Astra API Pricing Calculator
Estimate GPT-6 Astra API cost from tokens
Paste your expected tokens. See Standard / Batch / Flex / Fast cost before you flip the model switch.
Agent Burn Estimator
How much will your agents cost this month?
Estimate monthly spend from daily agent runs, token mix, and model prices — plus a runaway peak if loops go wild.
Prompt Cost Calculator
Paste a prompt, see the bill
Estimate tokens and USD cost for a prompt or chat transcript against official model list prices.
Budget-Aware MCP Templates
Make coding agents budget-aware
Copy-paste MCP configs and Cursor rules so Claude Code / Cursor / Codex can check spend before they keep going.
Agent Cost Runaway Checklist
12 signals your agents are burning money
A self-check for teams running AI coding agents without budgets, attribution, or stop conditions.
Astra pricing notes
Search-and-answer pages for Batch vs Flex, ChatGPT subscription vs API billing, and Astra vs Sol list rates.
From the AI Cost Gate guides
Matching playbooks on the portal — budgets that auto-stop, runaway containment, and local-first cost control. Conversion stays there.
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More ACG tools
Official list prices, sorted by value
Estimate GPT-6 Astra API cost from tokens
How much will your agents cost this month?
Paste a prompt, see the bill
Make coding agents budget-aware
12 signals your agents are burning money
Astra pricing notes
Same ~50% off Standard — Batch is async, Flex is sync
ChatGPT plans are not OpenAI API credit
List-rate gap vs GPT-5.6 Sol, from the shared price table