What does an AI-filtered RSS feed cost?
emit has no plans and no subscription — one prepaid balance, debited when work happens: 1 credit per 5 items judged by the LLM filter, 1 credit per item summarized, 1 credit per email sent, at $1.60 per 1,000 credits. Creating watchers, polling sources, serving your RSS feed, and Slack/Discord pushes are free. Plug in your numbers:
Formula: judging = items ÷ 5 per day · summaries = surviving items per day · email = recipients per day; monthly = 30 days × $0.0016 per credit. Watching pages without feeds adds nothing on standard fetching (JS-rendered checks, where enabled, are 2 credits per page per check). Re-running source discovery is 25 credits per run; the first discovery at creation is free.
For scale: fixed-plan tools this replaces
| Tool | What you pay | For |
|---|---|---|
| Feedly Pro+ (Leo AI) | $8.25/mo (annual) · $12.99 monthly | AI filtering inside Feedly's reader |
| RSS.app Basic → Pro | $8.32 – $83.32/mo (annual) | Website → RSS by feed-count tier |
| FetchRSS | $4.95 – $249/mo | Website → RSS by feed-count tier |
| Zapier Professional | from $19.99/mo | RSS → Slack once you pass 100 items/mo |
Competitor prices from their public pricing pages, July 2026 — verify before deciding. See vs Feedly, vs RSS.app, vs FetchRSS, vs Zapier.