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Products that do what BrokeAF allows you to review costs before making OpenAI calls does

1. 1
   AI Spend▲232

   Avoid surprises by monitoring OpenAI costs

   2023

2. 2
   Donely ▲220

   Your own OpenClaw instance for $0/mo

   Mar 2026 · donely.ai

3. 3MY
   Manage your cost of app subscriptions in one place▲71

   2017 · unubo.com

4. 4MY
   Monitor your el-cheapo UPS via SNMP▲30

   2021 · github.com

5. 5FA
   Fion – A new tool to track your spending, without a budget▲33

   2020 · fion.co

6. 6SH
   See hours worked before you make a purchase online▲11

   2019 · chrome.google.com

7. 7
   Bursora▲26

   Cap your AI spend before the bill lands

   Jul 2026 · bursora.com

8. 8MY
   Monitor Your AWS Cost in Slack▲27

   2019 · cloudforecast.io

9. 9VP
   VidFall – Pay with time, not your wallet▲30

   2014 · vidfall.com

10. 10BF
    Boom.fyi – a link shortening service built for IPFS▲40

    2019 · boom.fyi

11. 11BO
    Beating OpenAI's structured outputs on cost, accuracy and speed▲8

    2024 · boundaryml.com

12. 12OC
    OpenAI Cost Monitoring▲13

    Hi HN, My name is Ben Schaechter and I’m Co-Founder and CEO of https://vantage.sh - a cloud cost visibility and optimization platform. We just added support for monitoring OpenAI costs and usage to Vantage and I wanted to share a demo we put together with HN as I thought people might find it interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzAOU1-uMrM In early April we started getting requests from customers to add OpenAI cost support specifically as it was a bit opaque as to what exactly was driving costs. The way this works is that it uses an undocumented API available…

    2023

13. 13AT
    A tool to help you charge customers at the right price▲6

    2019 · chargewhat.website

14. 14
    AIVory Smart Inference▲7

    Cheaper inference. One URL. No code changes.

    Jun 2026 · aivory.net

15. 15BM
    BillGist – Monitor AWS costs from your inbox▲8

    2014 · billgist.com

16. 16BS
    Birdly – Slack bot that does your Expense Reports▲14

    2015 · getbirdly.com

17. 17AC
    AWS Cost Reports Right in Slack with CloudForecast▲8

    2019 · cloudforecast.io

18. 18AC
    AI Co-Pilot for Reading Earnings Call Transcripts▲5

    2023 · decodeinvesting.com

19. 19
    Calcis▲2

    Know what your LLM calls cost before you make them.

    Apr 2026 · calcis.dev

20. 20SW
    See what a contract could cost you before you sign▲5

    Apr 2026 · joyful-granita-8415bc.netlify.app

21. 21
    CheckAPI▲6

    Modern API monitoring for indie hackers & small teams

    Feb 2026

22. 22FO
    Flexprice: Open-Source Usage-Based Billing Toolkit▲7

    Hey HN, I’am Koshima, co-founder of Flexprice (https://flexprice.io/). Flexprice is an open source monetization platform for AI & Agentic companies. You can build usage-based, credit-based, or hybrid pricing models with full control. Usage-based billing works on paper, but breaks fast in production: (1) High-volume data (e.g., 10k API calls/sec from AI inferences) breaks naive pipelines, dropping events and causing underbilling or customer complaints. (2) Backfilling missing events or retroactive discounts screws up invoices, forcing 3 AM log stitching to avoid revenue…

    2025

23. 23IM
    I made a GUI for OpenAI's Whisper▲6

    2022 · github.com

24. 24SG
    Stop Guessing How Much to Charge for In App Purchases▲5

    2016 · blog.improve.ai

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