AI Expenditure — sidonsoft

// SUBSCRIPTIONS

Active Services

~~US$20~~

Service	Cost	Status	Renews
MiniMax Starter	A$11/mo	Active	~Mar 27
Alibaba Lite (Coding Plan)	US$10/mo	Prepaid	May 5Decide
ChatGPT Plus	~A$27/mo	Active	Monthly
Google AI Pro (2TB)	A$4.07/mo	Promo	Jun 2026→ $44.90
Ollama Pro	Cancelled	Apr 1Gone

// MINIMAX ACTUAL USAGE

MiniMax — Mar 1–27 (27 days)

381M

TOTAL TOKENS

14M

AVG/DAY

184M

LAST 7 DAYS

ADDITIONAL COST

M2.7 period (Mar 18–27)210M

M2.5 period (Mar 1–17)171M

              M2.7209.5M tokens

              M2.5171.4M tokens

              Peak day: 62.8M (Mar 24)

              Low day: 4.1M (Mar 26)

              All within plan · $0 charged

          ⚠️ Plan: 1,500 req/5hr · 15,000 req/week (weekly quota may apply post-renewal)

          ⚠️ Throttling: weekdays 15:00–17:30 AEST

// MINIMAX DAILY TOKENS (LAST 14 DAYS)

Token volume by day — showing heavy usage growth

// PEAK HOURS (AEST)

Token distribution by hour — Brisbane time

          Peak: 21:00 AEST (36.6M) · 18:00 AEST (28.2M)

          MiniMax throttle window: 15:00–17:30 AEST (marked in red)

// ALIBABA MODEL STUDIO

Alibaba Lite — Quota Status

Last 5 Hours0%

Last 7 Days19%

Last 30 Days23%

          Cap: ~358M tokens/mo · Auto-renew: OFF

          Decision: May 5 — Lite $10 or Pro $50?

// COP AW TOKEN USAGE

CoPaw — Provider Split (Mar 23–30)

          Total: 158.9M prompt · 979K completion · 3,338 calls

          aliyun: qwen3.5-plus dominant (50.5%) · ollama: glm-5 dominant

// MONTHLY SPEND

By Stack

// TIMELINE

Upcoming Decisions

Apr 1

Ollama Pro ends — Xiaomi MiMo free bridge Apr 1–2; OpenRouter $8 credit fallback

May 5

Alibaba Lite renews — upgrade to Pro ($50) for 5x window, or Lite + OpenRouter PAYG

Jun 2026

Google AI Pro — promo ends: A$4.07 → ~A$45/mo. Audit usage before then.

~Apr 27

MiniMax renewal — weekly quota may apply; monitor usage closely

Key Observations

MiniMax usage is heavy and growing. 184.5M tokens in last 7 days (~26M/day). If weekly quota kicks in at renewal (~Apr 27), Starter's 15,000 req/week may not cover it.
Qwen3.5 Plus (aliyun) = 50.5% of all CoPaw tokens. Primary workhorse. Upgrade to Pro ($50) worth considering for 5x window headroom.
5hr window is the real bottleneck — not monthly token caps. MiniMax peak throttle 15:00–17:30 AEST overlaps with heavy usage at 18:00 AEST.
Alibaba only 23% used this cycle — lots of headroom in monthly cap. The 5hr window forces Ollama fallback, not monthly exhaustion.
Google AI Pro — promo ends Jun 2026 → ~A$45/mo. Audit 2TB usage before deciding.
CoPaw ($20/mo) cancelled — saved $20/mo. Alibaba handles primary coding; OpenRouter fallback for emergencies.
MiniMax grandfather — purchased before Mar 22 cutoff. Weekly quota likely applies at next renewal (~Apr 27). Monitor closely.