For Early-stage AI-native startups
Startups burn 10–30% of their runway on AI. AICosts.ai makes that number legible.
Pain points we solve
Problem: Five AI invoices per month, each in a different format, reconciled in a Google Sheet at 2 AM before the investor update.
Solution: Upload each provider's invoice once a month (or push events through our developer API). AICosts.ai normalizes OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Pinecone, and more into one unified view.
Problem: A prompt template change 10×'d the bill overnight. The founder noticed at the next billing cycle.
Solution: Set a budget for all providers, or scope it to one platform, feature, or cost center. We email you once when rolling 30-day spend crosses 50%, 80%, and 100%, deduped monthly so a busy month never spams you.
Problem: The AI feature that 'drives retention' has no unit-economics number attached to it.
Solution: Break spend down by platform, model, and feature, and assign a cost center to each provider for chargeback. The Spend by cost center panel turns that into the per-team number the gross-margin question needs.
Problem: A YC app asked 'what's your AI gross margin?' and the answer was 'we'll get back to you.'
Solution: Monthly export of normalized usage ties directly into the finance model. Answer is one filter away, not a three-day fire drill.
What you get
Zero production impact
Off-path aggregation, no SDK swap, no proxy, no latency added to your hot path. We only ever see the billing files you upload.
All the providers you already use
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, Cohere, Fireworks, Groq, Hugging Face, Pinecone, RunwayML, and 40+ more.
Budgets that aren't one global number
Scope a monthly budget to a single platform, a single feature, or a cost center, instead of one blended cap that hides which line actually moved.
CSV/JSON export to your finance tools
Drop the normalized monthly export into your finance workbook, Ramp, Mercury, or QBO reconciliation, no glue code.
Frequently Asked Questions
We're pre-seed. Is this overkill?+
Probably yes at $500/month in AI spend. Worth it around $3k–$5k/month when the mix crosses 3+ providers and reconciliation becomes a real hour of someone's week.
Does AICosts.ai get access to our prompts?+
No. We never connect to your provider accounts. The only thing we ever receive is the billing file you choose to upload, or the usage events you choose to push through our developer API. Prompts and completions never reach us.
What if we switch providers later?+
You keep your historical data. Adding or removing a provider doesn't affect existing records. The normalized schema means your dashboard is provider-agnostic, so a migration is just a new set of invoices to upload.
How granular can we get on attribution?+
Today: by platform, by model, and by feature, plus a cost center you assign per provider for chargeback. Per-customer attribution isn't something we do yet, so if your gross-margin question needs a per-account number, we're not there.
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