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AI · July 14, 2026

StackSpend

Hi HN – I'm Andrew, one of the founders of Stackspend. We built Stackspend after seeing AI startups struggle to manage spend across cloud providers, SaaS tools, and APIs. The problem: AI companies often have dozens of vendors (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, etc.) and spend can grow extremely fast. What Stackspend does: • unified view of vendor spend • controls and approval flows • AI-company specific reporting You can try it here: www.stackspend.app Happy to answer questions.

StackSpend launched on July 14, 2026 with 6 votes, #3,356 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

What it does

Cost management for the modern AI engineering stack and the cloud it runs on. Same-day anomaly alerts matched to the deploy that likely caused them, forecasts, and a daily Slack digest. track → forecast → budget → detect → save

Cloud and AI cost management in one place: daily spend signals, anomaly alerts, and forecasts across AWS, OpenAI, and 15 more. Read-only, free 14-day trial.

Forecast, budget, and monitor cloud and AI spend automatically. StackSpend connects your providers to Slack, Linear, Jira and your on-call rotation, turning cost risks into engineering actions and giving every team a daily view of spend health. No credit card required. Read-only access. Daily Slack or email delivery. StackSpend is a cost management platform for the modern AI engineering stack — it connects to OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, GitHub, Hugging Face, Grok (xAI), and the cloud it runs on: AWS, GCP (Google Cloud), Azure, Snowflake, Vercel, ClickHouse Cloud, Elastic Cloud, and Twilio. It provides unified spend visibility, daily anomaly alerts, budget forecasting, and Slack or email…from stackspend.app

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