What was checked and what it cost
Cost & coverage
Week of 19–25 Oct 2026 (IST) — what was checked, and what it cost.
$2.08
Gemini cost this week
at 0.75 / 3.75 $ per 1M tokens
266
Gemini calls
2 failed (retried)
176 / 1,000
Tavily searches
used this month (free plan)
2
papers checked
10 older papers also discussed
Papers per topic
light bar = checked · strong bar = judged on-topic · hover a bar for numbersRecent runs
every run with its Gemini cost| Run | Started (IST) | Status | Gemini calls | Gemini cost | Tavily | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #15 Brief (scheduled) | 19 Oct, 07:11 | done · 4 hops | 260 | $2.0534 | 0 | 1 notesemantic scholar: Error: Semantic Scholar rate-limited or unavailable |
| #14 Daily (scheduled) | 19 Oct, 06:17 | done · 1 hops | 6 | $0.0299 | 16 | arXiv: 0 new of 1,106 fetched |
| #13 Daily (scheduled) | 18 Oct, 06:17 | done · 2 hops | 8 | $0.0337 | 16 | arXiv: 0 new of 1,106 fetched |
| #12 Daily (scheduled) | 17 Oct, 06:17 | done · 3 hops | 80 | $1.1093 | 16 | arXiv: 775 new of 2,238 fetched |
| #11 Daily (scheduled) | 16 Oct, 06:17 | done · 2 hops | 11 | $0.0526 | 16 | arXiv: 0 new of 1,112 fetched |
| #10 Brief (from button) | 15 Oct, 15:23 | done · 3 hops | 215 | $1.7001 | 0 | |
| #9 Daily (admin API) | 15 Oct, 15:06 | done · 4 hops | 99 | $1.4029 | 16 | arXiv: 759 new of 2,280 fetched 1 notewaiting: 4 paper(s) still waiting to be confirmed (Semantic Scholar busy), 0 check(s) waiting on them — the next run retries. |
| #8 Daily (scheduled) | 15 Oct, 06:17 | partial · 4 hops | 174 | $2.5542 | 16 | arXiv: 2,156 new of 4,014 fetched |
| #7 Daily (scheduled) | 14 Oct, 06:17 | done · 2 hops | 11 | $0.0546 | 16 | arXiv: 0 new of 879 fetched |
| #6 Daily (scheduled) | 13 Oct, 06:17 | done · 2 hops | 4 | $0.0215 | 16 | arXiv: 0 new of 879 fetched 1 notewaiting: 1 paper(s) still waiting to be confirmed (Semantic Scholar busy), 0 check(s) waiting on them — the next run retries. |
| #5 Daily (from button) | 12 Oct, 18:40 | done · 3 hops | 3 | $0.0091 | 16 | arXiv: 0 new of 879 fetched 1 notewaiting: 1 paper(s) still waiting to be confirmed (Semantic Scholar busy), 0 check(s) waiting on them — the next run retries. |
| #4 Brief (admin API) | 12 Oct, 18:12 | done · 1 hops | 63 | $0.4926 | 0 | |
| #3 Daily (admin API) | 12 Oct, 18:07 | done · 2 hops | 5 | $0.0213 | 16 | arXiv: 0 new of 879 fetched 1 notewaiting: 7 paper(s) still waiting to be confirmed (Semantic Scholar busy), 0 check(s) waiting on them — the next run retries. |
| #2 Brief (admin API) | 12 Oct, 17:36 | done · 4 hops | 65 | $0.5455 | 0 | |
| #1 Daily (admin API) | 12 Oct, 16:28 | partial · 12 hops | 102 | $1.2785 | 16 | arXiv: 981 new of 1,347 fetched |
Per week
| Week (IST) | Papers | Blogs (no paper) | Gemini calls | Gemini cost | Tavily | Briefs sent | Shared | Missed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19–25 Oct 2026 | 16 | 41 (40) | 266 | $2.0833 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 12–18 Oct 2026 | 4,941 | 243 (226) | 840 | $9.2759 | 160 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 5–11 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | $0.0000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 Sept – 4 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | $0.0000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21–27 Sept 2026 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | $0.0000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14–20 Sept 2026 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | $0.0000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7–13 Sept 2026 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | $0.0000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 Aug – 6 Sept 2026 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | $0.0000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gemini cost uses full input price (cached-token discounts not subtracted).
More detail: arXiv per category and Gemini by step
arXiv fetches per category
| Category | Daily runs | Fetched | New | Errors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cs.AI | 1 | 271 | 0 | 0 |
| cs.CL | 1 | 161 | 0 | 0 |
| cs.CR | 1 | 52 | 0 | 0 |
| cs.CV | 1 | 164 | 0 | 0 |
| cs.IR | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| cs.LG | 1 | 279 | 0 | 0 |
| cs.MA | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| cs.MM | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| cs.PL | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| cs.RO | 1 | 105 | 0 | 0 |
| cs.SE | 1 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| eess.IV | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
“Fetched” counts a cross-listed paper once per category; “new” counts it once overall.
Gemini by step
| Step | Calls | Failed | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| clean | 2 | 0 | 9,959 | 849 | $0.0107 |
| evidence | 3 | 0 | 11,647 | 179 | $0.0094 |
| importance | 250 | 1 | 17,67,810 | 1,80,054 | $2.0011 |
| qualify | 1 | 0 | 6,560 | 1,299 | $0.0098 |
| rank | 9 | 1 | 39,149 | 707 | $0.0320 |
| write | 1 | 0 | 16,037 | 2,211 | $0.0203 |
Admin
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