Free for everyone — not free for the founder. islam.museum charges its visitors nothing: no accounts, no ads, no tracking, no paywall — and its costs are paid, month by month, by its founder. In a recent month running costs came to roughly CA$1,900. The largest share, roughly CA$900, was AI assistants — Claude, ChatGPT, Devin, Grok, Google AI and Muse, the personal agent that orchestrates the fleet's work — used to research, draft, translate and check entries against their cited sources. Video generation (Runway, Artlist and Veo) makes the museum's films; ElevenLabs narrates them in Arabic, English and Urdu; GitHub hosts the code. Cloudflare (about CA$90 a month) keeps 99,000 pages fast and safe, alongside hosting and storage, and domain registrations keep the museum's names its own. Even the top tiers — Claude Ultra, Devin Max — run out before the month does: in October and early November, overages and top-ups alone added roughly CA$730 on top of the subscriptions. The usage is metered, not guessed: Copilot Max used 18,525 of its 20,000 monthly AI credits in five days, Devin's weekly quota ran at 100% two weeks running, and Claude Ultra stood at 84% of its week with days still to go. These are monthly running costs, not annual figures. Every contribution goes directly to them — and buys nothing: no access, no goods, no say over content. And the museum itself is free to take: anyone can download its data (CC0) and code (MIT), run it locally, build on it as a template, or use its public API — free, for anyone.