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PromptCostLab: Know What Your Prompt Costs
A browser-based token counter and API cost estimator for comparing prompts across major language models.
Why it surfacedPromptCostLab 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.
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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.