Cost Management
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Mistral Large 4 License: Use It, Host It, or Pay?
Mistral Large 4 license read for a five-person startup: can you ship it, can you host the 1,061 GB weights, and is the API cheaper? My maths inside.
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LiteLLM Budget Limits: max_budget Needs Postgres
A LiteLLM budget cap does nothing without a database. I tested v1.104.0, then set up per-agent keys and a team spend limit in ten minutes.
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Half My Agent’s Budget Goes to Checking Its Own Work
I built the quality gate last, in an afternoon, as the cheap safety rail. Then I added up the API bills by phase. Across four runs it took 51.5% of everything the pipeline spent.
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The Hidden $100K+ Reality: What 50+ Enterprise OpenClaw Deployments Reveal About True Implementation Costs
Open source is not the cheap part. The cheap part is the license. The expensive part is everything you now own. Across 50+ documented enterprise OpenClaw deployments, the…