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Self-host LiteLLM: per-team budgets and virtual keys are in the free open-source tier, while everyone else gates enforcement behind a sales call. Priced through one 50M-request workload, the platform layer ranges from $7 to $10,300 a month.
August 7, 2026 · 19 min read
DeepSeek warned of a significant API price rise with no number and no date. Because the weights are MIT-licensed, the ceiling is already public: independent hosts serving the identical model charge 3-4x on posted rates and 40x on cache hits.
August 7, 2026 · 12 min read
Manifest killed its four-tier LLM router after four months and 7,000 users, and the arithmetic explains why: cache reads bill at 10% of base input, so routing an agent step to a model 2.5x cheaper makes it 3.5x more expensive. Route at the session boundary, not the request.
August 1, 2026 · 15 min read