Rs 1,100 a Year for Prime Video She Never Watched: A Local AI Spots Plans That Are Too Big for How You Live
- Level Beginner
- Setup~30 min (estimated)
- Evidence Some evidence
- CostNot stated in source
- No-codeYes
What they did
An Airtel bundle gave her a free year of Amazon Prime, and then she was billed Rs 1,499 for a full membership. She only uses Prime for shipping, which the Rs 399 Prime Shopping Edition covers, so Rs 1,100 a year was going to video she never watched. She built a small local model that reads a list of subscriptions and labels each 'ghost': over-tier, abandoned, barely used or price-crept, with the cheaper plan to switch to. On a sample of nine subscriptions it flagged Rs 29,056 a year, the biggest being a 2 TB iCloud+ plan for photos that fit in 50 GB.
How it went
dev.to post by Sarvar Nadaf (Oct 29, 2026): Prime over-tier caught (Rs 1,499 vs Rs 399 plan); a sample of 9 subscriptions showed Rs 29,056/year leaking. The Rs 29,056 is from a sample person's list, not a real household. Check current plan prices before switching
Worth knowing
- dev.to post by Sarvar Nadaf (Oct 29, 2026): Prime over-tier caught (Rs 1,499 vs Rs 399 plan); a sample of 9 subscriptions showed Rs 29,056/year leaking.
- The Rs 29,056 is from a sample person's list, not a real household. Check current plan prices before switching.
Prompt
Cleaned version rewritten from the source — not a direct quote.
Here's a list of my subscriptions with price, billing cycle and how often I actually use each: [list]. For each one, tell me if it's over-tier (a cheaper plan covers my real use), abandoned (prepaid but I stopped using it), barely used, or crept up in price. Name the exact cheaper plan or action for each and the yearly savings, then total it up.
Recommended
Try it in Grok Bot
Grok Bot can do this too: ask it to read your statements and sort each subscription the same way.
- Copy the prompt (button below).
- Open Grok Bot chat and paste it. Replace any [bracketed] placeholders.
- Connect the listed tools (as needed) as connectors when Grok Bot asks.
- If the task repeats, ask: "Make this a daily routine."
Alternatives: the same prompt works in Claude, ChatGPT Agent, OpenClaw.
Set it up
Stack: Custom agent
- Read the original source for full context.
- Connect the tools your agent needs.
- Paste the prompt and replace [bracketed] placeholders.
- Run once manually and check the output before scheduling it.
Generic suggested steps, not from the source.
Evidence
dev.to post by Sarvar Nadaf (Oct 29, 2026): Prime over-tier caught (Rs 1,499 vs Rs 399 plan); a sample of 9 subscriptions showed Rs 29,056/year leaking. The Rs 29,056 is from a sample person's list, not a real household. Check current plan prices before switching
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