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Marketing (content, campaigns, SEO, personalization)

3 AI automations this team runs today, each with the process, the AICost engine chain that prices and governs it, and the evidence behind it.

Cost engine Governance engine Each step priced and controlled. Click any engine to open its calculator or playground.
Content and creative production at scale (copy and image variants)Personalized campaigns and 1:1 email/journey contentSEO and AI-search (GEO) content optimization

Content and creative production at scale (copy and image variants)

Owner: Content marketing / brand and creative operations

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Scale: Klarna produced 1,000+ images in one quarter with gen AI (2024)

How the work runs

  1. Marketer writes a campaign brief
  2. AI drafts copy for each channel and audience
  3. AI generates or edits images and resizes variants
  4. Brand and legal review checks tone, claims and image rights
  5. Approved assets published and tagged in the asset library

AICost engine chain

6 cost engines 2 governance engines

Each step priced and controlled. Click any engine to open its calculator or playground.

Where cost leaks

  • Many regenerations per approved image or headline
  • High-resolution image and video generation priced per output
  • Overlapping seats across several creative AI tools

Where risk sits

  • Copyright and likeness issues in generated images
  • Unapproved product or health/financial claims in copy
  • Off-brand or biased imagery published without review

Runs on

  • Adobe GenStudio / Firefly
  • Midjourney
  • Canva
  • Jasper
  • Adobe Experience Manager
  • HubSpot

Evidence

marketingdive.com ↗martech.org ↗menlovc.com ↗

Personalized campaigns and 1:1 email/journey content

Owner: Lifecycle / CRM marketing, marketing operations

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How the work runs

  1. Marketer defines the audience and goal
  2. AI builds segments and picks send time and channel
  3. AI writes subject lines and message variants per segment or person
  4. AI picks product recommendations for each customer
  5. Campaign runs with automatic testing
  6. Results feed back into the next send

AICost engine chain

5 cost engines 2 governance engines

Each step priced and controlled. Click any engine to open its calculator or playground.

Where cost leaks

  • Generating a unique message per recipient on very large lists
  • Re-generating variants for every test cycle
  • Platform AI credits charged per message or per contact

Where risk sits

  • Using personal data beyond consent (GDPR/CCPA)
  • Wrong offers or prices sent to customers
  • Discriminatory targeting in credit, housing or job ads

Runs on

  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud / Agentforce
  • Braze
  • Iterable
  • HubSpot
  • Adobe Journey Optimizer
  • Klaviyo

Evidence

braze.com ↗salesforce.com ↗menlovc.com ↗

SEO and AI-search (GEO) content optimization

Owner: SEO / content strategy team

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How the work runs

  1. Team tracks how the brand shows up in Google AI Overviews and AI assistants
  2. AI finds keyword and question gaps
  3. AI drafts or refreshes pages and FAQs
  4. Editor fact-checks and adds expert input
  5. Pages published and visibility re-measured

AICost engine chain

4 cost engines 2 governance engines

Each step priced and controlled. Click any engine to open its calculator or playground.

Where cost leaks

  • Large numbers of monitoring prompts run daily across several AI assistants
  • Mass page generation that later needs rewriting
  • Stacking several SEO AI subscriptions

Where risk sits

  • Thin or inaccurate AI pages hurting search rankings and trust
  • Factual errors about products or competitors
  • Copying competitor or source content

Runs on

  • Semrush
  • Ahrefs
  • Google Search Console
  • WordPress
  • Contentful
  • Surfer

Evidence

searchengineland.com ↗semrush.com ↗

Reference chains are a starting point. Your volumes, models and vendors change the numbers; the engines recompute them from live prices.

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📖 Data sources & methodology 172 text models · 9 embeddings · 44 vision · 62 audio · 8 vector DBs across 10 vendor pages · last verified 2026-10-15

Methodology

  • All prices are USD per 1 million tokens, current as of 2026-10-15.
  • Vendor-published values have no mark. Inferred/extrapolated values are marked with * and listed below.
  • Batch API discounts are 50% off standard rates across providers that offer Batch mode.
  • Prompt caching discounts vary by provider (typically 80-90% off cached input tokens).
  • Regional data-residency surcharges (Anthropic 1.1x, OpenAI 1.1x, Google regional tiers) are NOT included in base rates.
  • Long-context pricing tiers apply when input exceeds model threshold.
  • Embedding prices are input-only (no output tokens generated).

Primary sources

Last-verified date is the most recent successful daily snapshot (aicost_pricing_snapshots) or, when no snapshot exists yet, the latest successful crawler run (aicost_crawler_runs). 10 of 10 vendors are currently verified. Aggregator services (TokenCost, AI Pricing Guru, etc.) are not listed.

Anthropic
2026-10-14
https://www.anthropic.com/pricing
Daily snapshot since Sep 2023 · 700 days captured
Anthropic Docs
2026-10-14
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing
Daily snapshot since Sep 2023 · 700 days captured
OpenAI
2026-10-14
https://openai.com/api/pricing/
Daily snapshot since Sep 2023 · 701 days captured
Google AI
2026-10-14
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
Daily snapshot since Dec 2023 · 676 days captured
Google Vertex
2026-10-14
https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing
Daily snapshot since Dec 2023 · 676 days captured
DeepSeek
2026-10-14
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
Daily snapshot since May 2024 · 615 days captured
xAI
2026-10-14
https://x.ai/api
Daily snapshot since Nov 2024 · 533 days captured
Mistral
2026-10-14
https://mistral.ai/pricing
Daily snapshot since Dec 2023 · 674 days captured
Cohere
2026-10-14
https://cohere.com/pricing
Daily snapshot since Sep 2023 · 700 days captured
Voyage AI
2026-10-15
https://docs.voyageai.com/docs/pricing

Inferred values (marked with * in calculator tables)

Derived from industry conventions, not directly published by the vendor. Typical conventions: cached input = 10% of base (90% off), Batch API = 50% of base (50% off).

Vendor / Model Field Why it’s inferred
Anthropic — Claude Sonnet 4.6 cachedInput Derived at 10% of input rate — Anthropic publishes 90% cache-hit discount on this tier.
Anthropic — Claude Sonnet 4.5 cachedInput Derived at 10% of input rate; same 90% cache-hit convention as Sonnet 4.6.
Anthropic — Claude Sonnet 4.5 batchInput Derived at 50% of standard input — Anthropic documents uniform 50% Batch discount.
Anthropic — Claude Sonnet 4.5 batchOutput Derived at 50% of standard output — Anthropic documents uniform 50% Batch discount.
Anthropic — Claude Haiku 4.5 cachedInput Derived at 10% of input rate — Anthropic 90% cache-hit discount convention.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Mini cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — OpenAI documents automatic 90% discount on cache hits across GPT-5.x tier.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Nano cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — OpenAI 90% cache-hit convention.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Nano batchInput Derived at 50% of input — OpenAI Batch API uniform 50% discount.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Nano batchOutput Derived at 50% of output — OpenAI Batch API uniform 50% discount.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Pro cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — OpenAI 90% cache-hit convention.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Pro batchInput Derived at 50% of input — OpenAI Batch API uniform 50% discount.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Pro batchOutput Derived at 50% of output — OpenAI Batch API uniform 50% discount.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 cachedInput Derived at 10% of input; no residency uplift.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5 cachedInput Derived at 10% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5 batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5 batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5.5 Pro cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — OpenAI does not publish a cached rate for *-pro models; using the family convention.
OpenAI — GPT-5.5 Pro batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5.5 Pro batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 Pro cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — pro-tier convention.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 Pro batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 Pro batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5.1 batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5.1 batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5 Pro batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5 Pro batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5 Nano cachedInput Derived at 10% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5 Nano batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5 Nano batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
Google — Gemini 3 Flash cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — Google caching discount convention ~90%.
Google — Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — Google caching convention.
Google — Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite batchInput Derived at 50% of input — Google Batch API uniform 50% discount.
Google — Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite batchOutput Derived at 50% of output — Google Batch API uniform 50% discount.
Google — Gemini 2.5 Pro cachedInput Derived at 10% of input.
Google — Gemini 2.5 Flash cachedInput Derived at 10% of input.
Google — Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — Google caching convention.
Google — Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite batchInput Derived at 50% of input — Google Batch API uniform 50% discount.
Google — Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite batchOutput Derived at 50% of output — Google Batch API uniform 50% discount.
xAI — Grok 4 (legacy) cachedInput Extrapolated at 25% of base.

Pricing is cross-verified against the LiteLLM community registry when available. Daily snapshots are kept in aicost_pricing_snapshots; every change is logged to aicost_price_changelog with old & new values for full audit trail. Read the full methodology →