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LLM bills shouldn’t be a surprise — I built Tokenbar to show cost by endpoint + customer

The Efficiency Metric the AI Agent Industry Forgot to Build

We could see our AI bill, but not explain it — so I built AiKey

Your AI Product Is Not A Real Business

Most AI apps don’t fail because of the idea — they fail because of this

Paying $200/month for 6 AI tools, probably only need 2. Building a free quiz to help solopreneurs cut their AI stack — worth it?

Why I stopped billing my users for AI tokens

Expenses of building AI-powered SaaS?

We could see our AI bill, but not explain it — so I built AiKey

I cut my AI API costs by 5x — without losing 90% of quality

The uncomfortable truth about AI tool pricing in 2026

Smaller models are good enough — and that's the whole point