Cost Comparison
Compare LinkedGrow's BYOK costs against competitor subscription pricing to understand your total monthly expense.
LinkedGrow vs competitors
Most LinkedIn content tools charge a flat monthly fee that includes limited AI generations. LinkedGrow's BYOK model separates platform features from AI costs, which gives you much lower total costs with no generation limits.
What you actually pay
| Monthly price | AI for the agents | AI for your posts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinkedGrow Pro | $99 | Included | Your own key, $2-4 |
| LinkedGrow Business | $179 | Included | Your own key, $2-4 |
The comparison people usually want is against a lead-generation stack rather than a writing tool: a prospecting tool, a data provider and a sequencer bought separately land well past $99 a month before anybody writes a message, and none of them post for you.
Against writing tools, the difference is the cap. They bundle AI and meter it. LinkedGrow does not meter the content side at all, because you are paying your own provider for exactly what you use and you pick the model.
Cost breakdown by usage level
Here is what real-world AI costs look like at different usage levels:
Light usage (10 posts per month)
| Activity | Cost |
|---|---|
| 10 post generations (GPT-5.4 mini) | $0.08 |
| 5 regenerations | $0.04 |
| 10 ideas generated | $0.02 |
| Total AI cost | ~$0.14 |
Regular usage (30 posts per month)
| Activity | Cost |
|---|---|
| 30 post generations (GPT-5.4 mini) | $0.24 |
| 15 regenerations | $0.12 |
| 30 ideas generated | $0.06 |
| 20 hooks generated | $0.04 |
| Total AI cost | ~$0.46 |
Heavy usage with images (100 posts + 30 images per month)
| Activity | Cost |
|---|---|
| 100 post generations (Gemini 3 Flash) | $0.60 |
| 50 regenerations | $0.30 |
| 50 ideas generated | $0.10 |
| 30 hooks generated | $0.06 |
| 30 images (Nano Banana Lite) | $0.90 |
| Total AI cost | ~$1.96 |
Even heavy usage with image generation rarely exceeds $5 per month.
Model cost tiers
Budget models (under $0.005 per post)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite - $0.001/post
- GPT-5.4 nano - $0.002/post
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite - $0.003/post
- Sonar - $0.004/post
Value models (under $0.02 per post)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash - $0.005/post
- Gemini 3 Flash - $0.006/post
- Grok 4.3 - $0.006/post
- Grok 4.20 Reasoning - $0.006/post
- GPT-5.4 mini - $0.008/post
- Kimi K2.6 - $0.008/post
- Kimi K2.7 Code - $0.008/post
- Claude Haiku 4.5 - $0.01/post
- GPT-5.6 Luna - $0.012/post
- Grok 4.5 - $0.013/post
- Gemini 3.5 Flash - $0.017/post
- Gemini 2.5 Pro - $0.018/post
Premium models ($0.02+ per post)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro - $0.02/post
- Sonar Reasoning Pro - $0.02/post
- GPT-5.6 Terra - $0.03/post
- GPT-5.4 - $0.03/post
- Claude Sonnet 5 - $0.03/post
- Kimi K3 - $0.03/post
- Sonar Pro - $0.03/post
- Claude Opus 4.8 - $0.05/post
- Claude Opus 4.7 - $0.05/post
- GPT-5.6 Sol - $0.06/post
- GPT-5.5 - $0.06/post
- Claude Fable 5 - $0.10/post
A note on reasoning models
Most current models think before they answer, and providers bill those thinking tokens at the output rate. LinkedGrow sets the effort level to low on every provider that supports it, so the per-post figures above reflect what you actually pay rather than an unconfigured worst case.
Monitoring your spending
Every AI provider offers a usage dashboard where you can:
- See real-time spending
- Set monthly spending limits
- View usage by model and day
- Download invoices
We recommend setting a $10 monthly limit when you first start. You can always increase it later as you understand your usage patterns.