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AI & Mobile · Jul 31, 2026 · 13 min read

AI app development cost in India, 2026: a ₹6–60 lakh breakdown (and the AI bill founders forget)

What does it really cost to build an AI app in India in 2026? Build bands run ₹6–60 lakh, but the ongoing LLM, inference and vector-database bill is the line founders miss. A rupee-by-rupee breakdown for startup budgets.

Manu Shukla

#ai app development cost #app development cost india #llm api cost

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AI & Cloud Infrastructure · Jul 29, 2026 · 16 min read

Always-on memory agent vs RAG: when to drop your vector database (2026)

Shubham Saboo's Always-On Memory Agent stores memory in SQLite and consolidates it every 30 minutes with no embeddings. We compare it to RAG on cost, latency and scale, and when to drop the vector database.

Manu Shukla

#AI agents #agent memory #RAG