My AI+SaaS costs were a black box, so I built a dashboard to track them
Over the last few months, I’ve been building AI-powered tools using a mix of OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Midjourney, and a handful of other services.
At first, it was all manageable. $10 here, $20 there.
But then the billing spikes started. $120 one week. $370 the next.
And I had no idea where it was coming from.
Every tool had its own billing dashboard (some basically unusable), and none showed:
- what project caused the spike
- which model or feature was responsible
- or even when exactly it happened
Worst offender: Google Cloud’s billing console for Gemini.
It felt like a test designed to punish anyone who wants to understand how their money is being spent.
So I hacked together a solution, a Stripe-style dashboard that connects to my AI tools and:
- Tracks API + SaaS spend across services
- Breaks it down by tool, project, and time
- Sends usage alerts + burn forecasts before things get out of hand
It started as a personal pain project, but after posting on Reddit and talking to other indie hackers, I realized a lot of us are building into the same mess, especially with pay-as-you-go pricing becoming the norm.
🚀 I just opened up a waitlist for it here:
👉 https://aispendtracker.com/?utm_source=indiehackers
Would love your take on this, especially if you're also building something AI-related or juggling a growing stack of tools.
FEEDBACK HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!
