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[FREEMIUM] Tracked my AI content plugin's API spend for 28 days: $13.11 total, BYOK model
Full disclosure: I built the plugin (Draft2Publish). Not a launch post — posting the cost data because this sub tends to care about the architecture behind plugin pricing.
The plugin is BYOK — users connect their own Google / OpenAI / Anthropic / DeepSeek keys and pay providers directly. No token markup, no credits system. I pay the same way everyone on the free tier pays. $13.11 / 28 articles / 28 days is the real Google AI Studio bill.
Workflow runs 20+ steps across 4 phases inside WordPress: topic discovery, source verification, structured writing, on-page SEO + GEO, image generation, internal linking, scheduled publishing.
Happy to go deep on the technical side — model routing per phase, how BYOK billing is wired, Freemius licensing, whatever's useful.