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Cost Notes

WP Trend Watcher should make AI cost visible.

The target is practical usage, not impressive automation.

Cost Targets

  • Personal usage: less than $1/month.
  • Heavier usage: less than $5/month.

These are targets, not guarantees.

Track Per Run

Each report run should try to record:

  • date
  • article count
  • source count
  • provider
  • model
  • input tokens, if available
  • output tokens, if available
  • estimated cloud cost
  • local model used, if any
  • human review time

Example Build Notes Format

## Build Notes

- Articles analyzed: 18
- Sources reviewed: 4
- Provider: local / cloud
- Model: TBD
- Estimated cloud cost: $0.00
- Human review time: 15 minutes

Cost-Saving Principles

  • Summarize only articles that pass source/date filters.
  • Keep prompts short and specific.
  • Store summaries so the same article does not need to be summarized repeatedly.
  • Prefer local models when quality is good enough.
  • Use cloud models only where they clearly improve output quality.
  • Avoid sending full article text repeatedly if a stored summary is sufficient.

Open Questions

  • What token/cost estimator should be used when providers other than Ollama are implemented?