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What This Actually Costs
Chapter 14 of 15. It is the chapter no vendor will write, and it is reproduced here in full, unedited, because it is the clearest test of whether the rest of the book is worth $29 to you.
Every tool in the book has a headline price and a real price. The gap is not an accident — it is how the pricing is designed. None of what follows is fraud. Every figure is published somewhere: a pricing FAQ, a billing help article, a footnote under a plan comparison. Almost never on the page you looked at when you decided to sign up. This chapter puts them in one place.
What the chapter covers
- Why every tool has a headline price and a real price, and why the gap is by design.
- Three pricing models — flat subscription, per-unit, and the one that bites — with the named traps under each.
- How metered automation can run alongside per-ticket billing on the same conversation.
- What a realistic monthly stack looks like once the footnotes are included.
- Prices checked July 2026 and given as orders of magnitude, not quotes.
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