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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10

PromptCostLab: Know What Your Prompt Costs

promptcostlab.com ↗ · Useful Tools · score 78.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A browser-based token counter and API cost estimator for comparing prompts across major language models.

Why it surfaced

PromptCostLab counts tokens locally, checks context-window fit, and compares input, output, and cached pricing across 19 models from 11 providers. Its model registry, practical examples, and plain-English guides make a usually murky piece of AI infrastructure easier to reason about before shipping.

Ham Is Specifically Discouraged

August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.