Let me do a quick survey
Can everyone estimate their actual expenses, starting from January this year, and also roughly how much you spend per month now?
Also, which models are you all using, and what frameworks are you pairing them with?
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Basically zero, because ai.nodeloc.com is just too great. I’ve only spent a few dozen bucks so far.
Let me go first: This year I actually spent a bit over 1,300 yuan, about 100-300 per month.
The one I use most is GPT 5.4 medium. When I run into something it can’t handle, I switch to GPT 5.5 high (though actually, after using GPT 5.5, I often find it so much smarter that I don’t want to switch back).
For Agents, I use codex, and recently I’ve been trying out kiro, bolt, and v0.
For openclaw, I’m using minimax 2.7. Feels sufficient.
I’ve tried a lot of service providers, and have hopped between quite a few relay sites, but most of the time I still stick with Silicon-based Flow.
I spent a little over a hundred yuan to buy Deepseek’s API. Everything else I managed to get for free.
By the way, how do you link ai.nodeloc.com to Openclaw? I feel like I’ve never managed to get it to work, but I have no issues at all when using Cherry Studio locally.
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A few dozen bucks, all spent on buying cards and getting verification codes.
Didn’t spend a single cent
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Always using the free version
If it’s free, take advantage of it as much as possible.
About 1,000 a month. This month it’s a bit less because I used the dean’s Kiro.
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Just passing by to get free stuff
Is this really worth it? I exchanged 500 energy for $10 at a 1x rate, but doesn’t it get used up really fast? I haven’t used it yet. It takes so long to save up 500 energy, I can’t bear to spend it.
All in on Doubao—cost performance is the main focus.
Who cares about high or low IQ, as long as it works, that’s enough.
Not spending a dime, saving all my money for fried chicken drumsticks.
Just have it generate a Ruozhi article for me with a single click.
I’ll tweak it myself and it’s ready to post 
The platform reviewers will laugh out loud reading it, and I’ll be giggling too.
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I’ve been running the Pro 5x all year—before it was released, I was always using the Plus. Then I spent $40 on derouter and that was probably it.
AI itself hardly costs any money, but I’ve spent quite a bit on servers.
Originally, I bought the servers to farm YouTube videos, but now I’m addicted to milking AI freebies. Watching videos is so boring—racking up a bunch of AI freebies is what really gives me a sense of accomplishment 
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Leeching free Codex credits once every 7 days, and topping up 10 yuan worth of tokens on DS each time—it all adds up to less than or equal to 100 yuan in total.
Get freebies + score some perks 
Take advantage of downtime at work to enjoy some totally free perks.
Why can’t I use it?