What I’m spending on AI every month

I spent over $1,000 on AI tools for my business last month.

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Crazy? Maybe.

But these tools are helping me save money and ship projects faster than ever.

Every day I write a 500-word newsletter. I use Grammarly to catch typos and mistakes. It costs $30 per month, but its AI-powered assistant is a timesaver. I can quickly accept changes and suggestions at a click, going from draft to published much faster. Get a discount here.

A year or two ago, I relied on a human editor.

That got expensive quickly — $1,000 to $2,000 per month, depending on the amount of content I commissioned and published.

Today,for short and medium-form content, AI is faster and cheaper. If I was writing a book, I’d still hire a human editor. But for editing newsletters and social media posts? AI wins.

I also use Lovable and Replit. Both are vibe coding tools where you write prompts, and it creates apps and websites. They start at $20–25 per month, though you’ll hit higher tiers quickly on complicated projects.

Claude is my $20-per-month workhorse for content. I’ve trained it on 150,000 words of my daily emails. I upload them as Google Docs, then ask for YouTube video…