API Credits

Monthly budget: $248-328. Monitor usage across all pipeline services.

Anthropic (Claude API)

missing

Script generation, QC, metadata, package review, channel strategy

Token-based. ~$150-200/mo estimated at current volume.

ElevenLabs (Voice)

missing

Voice synthesis with word-level timestamps (Daniel voice)

Characters/month. Resets monthly.

Tavily (Web Search)

missing

Company research, claim verification (advanced + basic search)

API credits/month. ~3 searches per video.

Perplexity (AI Search)

missing

Topic Radar trending research

Token-based. Usage tracked per response.

YouTube Data API v3

configured

Video upload, thumbnail, captions, metadata

10,000 units/day. Upload = 1,600 units.

Trigger.dev (Orchestration)

configured

Pipeline task orchestration, retries, scheduling

Runs/month by plan tier.

Cloudflare R2 (Storage)

missing

Video, audio, thumbnail, caption, metadata storage

10GB free. Zero egress fees.

AWS Lambda (Remotion Render)

missing

Video rendering via Remotion Lambda

Pay per invocation + duration. ~$0.50-1.00/render.