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Dograh and the nine-dollar phone call

An answering service bills about $9.75 a call at the starter tier, and the AI platforms that replaced it take a nickel to seven cents a minute off the top before the phone company and the models get paid. Dograh is the self-hosted version of that platform layer, BSD licensed, and the money it actually saves you is not the per-minute cut.

Mailing ledger shows four 25,000-send blocks, an expired stamp, a $16 SES slip under Notifuse, and a $140 Mailchimp invoice.

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Notifuse and the postage you buy in blocks

A 40,000 person list mailed weekly is about 160,000 sends a month. Mailchimp Transactional charges $140 for that, in blocks of 25,000 that expire, and only if you are already paying for a marketing plan underneath. Amazon SES charges $16. Notifuse is the open source console that sits on top of the $16, and the saving is not the story.

Paused terminal shows an undisclosed limit beside an OpenReply server; Chatfuel costs $49 monthly versus $25 for hosting.

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OpenReply and the limit nobody publishes

Chatfuel wants $49 a month for keyword-to-message automation, and its own documentation says the bot pauses when you cross an allowance it never prints. OpenReply is the seven-week-old MIT repo that moves that job onto about twenty five dollars of your own infrastructure, and the savings are the least interesting part.

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