Every developer has run into the "subscription creep" problem. You subscribe to a couple of LLM tools, an AI design generator, and a coding copilot, and suddenly you are paying $100+/month without even realizing it. To help devs and creators audit their AI budgets, I built a lightweight price comparison database. But instead of spinning up a heavy database that would cost me money to run, I decided to go static-first. Why Astro? I chose Astro for https://aipriceguide.co because the site is highly content-driven. The data doesn't change by the millisecond, but it does need to load instantly. By utilizing local markdown and JSON files for the 43+ AI tools, I kept the entire site serverless and incredibly fast. The data is parsed at build time, yielding perfect Lighthouse scores. Tailwind CSS handled the utility styling, keeping the bundle size near zero.…