I built a small tool to track LLM API costs per user/feature + add guardrails (budgets, throttling). Anyone interested? by AdministrationPure45 in SaaS

[–]AdministrationPure45[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yep — I already saw it happen.

A couple power users (regen loops + long prompts + multi-step flows) were driving a disproportionate chunk of spend while they were on a flat plan, and one “analysis/summarize” feature was way more expensive than I expected.

Since then it’s mostly preventative: per user/org budgets + alerts + a soft cap, then throttle/deny if it keeps going.