Grok Bot's hourly polling costs $397 a month, event triggers cut it to $33
The same Grok Bot routine costs $397 a month when polling hourly, but drops to $33–45 with event triggers and a cheap change check.
your AI agents could be burning $397 a month just checking if anything changed the same Grok Bot routine costs $33 running hourly, or $45 with a cheap change check 1. trigger on events instead of polling constantly 2. start with the slowest schedule the task can tolerate 3. run the cheap check first and do the expensive work only when something changed 4. set approval rules before you go to sleep, since requests expire after about 10 minutes 5. log every run and kill any routine that comes back "no change" 99% of the time the bot and the model stay the same across all three numbers. what changes is how often it wakes up for nothing ↓
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