From 445d8b0c3e24985943f8935ac74a5c6093ed7808 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Inferencebot Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2026 00:33:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?provider=20pricing:=20measure=20our=20Regolo=20?= =?UTF-8?q?usage=20=E2=80=94=20$4.38/month,=20~1.1%=20of=20inference=20spe?= =?UTF-8?q?nd?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Answered the subscription question with our own SpendLogs rather than guessing: 452 requests, $4.38, essentially all in the last 30 days, against $426 lifetime gateway spend. A plan must beat ~$4.38/month; Regolo prices are not published. Their 30-day trial (1M tokens/day) would cover our ~120k/day. Also puts the 2026-11-01 change in money terms: ~$1/month, so accuracy rather than urgency. --- provider-pricing/regolo.md | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) diff --git a/provider-pricing/regolo.md b/provider-pricing/regolo.md index 1cff49c..1838405 100644 --- a/provider-pricing/regolo.md +++ b/provider-pricing/regolo.md @@ -62,3 +62,38 @@ should be fixed in the same pass (x 1.16 -> $0.0000000174 per pixel). Keep a dated section per notice. The next change should be a diff against this file rather than a re-derivation — the email link is a login wall, so the numbers only reach us when the operator forwards them. + + +## Our actual Regolo usage (measured 2026-10-31, from LiteLLM SpendLogs) + +Source: `"LiteLLM_SpendLogs"` in the gateway's Postgres, reached with python + `psycopg` inside the +gateway container (there is no `psql` there). Models were first used 2026-10-16. + +| model | requests | spend | window | +|---|---|---|---| +| regolo/qwen3.5-122b | 195 | $2.61 | 2026-10-16 → 10-31 | +| regolo/qwen-image | 94 | $0.96 | 2026-10-16 → 10-31 | +| regolo/apertus-70b | 157 | $0.82 | 2026-10-16 → 10-31 | +| **all Regolo** | **452** | **$4.38** | last 30 days; ~all of it | + +Context: total gateway spend is **$426.34** lifetime (104,947 requests, since 2026-09-04), and +**~$393 in the last 30 days** — greenpt/glm $231.42, deepseek $146.14, gpt-oss $10.32, +Regolo **$4.38**, other $0.79. So **Regolo is ~1.1% of inference spend, about $4.38/month.** + +## Should we take a subscription? + +**Almost certainly not at current usage.** A plan has to beat ~$4.38/month to be worth it, and +Regolo's plan prices are **not published** — the pricing page has a SUBSCRIPTIONS section with no +figures, which is why the announcement email links into their account portal. Worth one short +question to them via "Talk to an engineer", not a project. + +One thing that is public and useful: their **30-day free trial** grants **1M tokens/day** across +"All Core Models". Our entire Regolo usage is roughly **120k tokens/day** (≈3.6M/month), i.e. well +inside that, so the trial — and likely a low tier — would cover everything we currently do. + +## The 2026-11-01 change, in money terms + +At these volumes the mispricing is small: apertus's input roughly 2.5x-ing on a model that has cost +**$0.82 lifetime** is about **$1/month** of exposure, and qwen's cut moves ~$0.6/month in members' +favour. So this is **billing accuracy, not urgency** — but accuracy still matters, because the same +numbers feed the cost headers members can now read.