I was juggling 4 AI provider dashboards and still got blindsided by a $380 overage — so I built something to fix it
Summary
The author built a unified dashboard to track and manage costs across multiple AI providers like OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and Groq, with real-time alerts and cost breakdowns to avoid unexpected overages.
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