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Costbase

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Costbase is a cost monitoring tool for AI products that aggregates usage data from multiple AI providers into a single dashboard. It connects via admin keys to official reporting APIs of providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, providing cost visibility without proxying traffic or requiring code changes.

THE PRODUCT, BEYOND THE PITCH

Editorially reviewed · Sources checked Oct 3, 2026

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A good fit for

AI product teams needing consolidated cost visibility across multiple AI providers without changing their app infrastructure.
Users who want cost monitoring without adding latency or dependencies in their production request path.

Know the limitations

Data freshness depends on provider reporting delays, typically minutes to a few hours lag.
Costbase is a cost-visibility tool and not designed for request debugging or prompt inspection.

What you can do

Monitoring and understanding AI product costs across multiple providers and apps.
Aggregating cost data for AI usage including chat completions, transcription, text-to-speech, embeddings, and images.

Features

Aggregates AI usage data from multiple providers into one dashboard by app, provider, model, or key.
Pulls usage data directly from official reporting APIs without proxying production traffic.
Supports hourly background sync and manual sync to keep usage data fresh.
Allows renaming of API keys inline to identify the apps they power.

Integrations

Not confirmed yet.

Platforms & data export

Web-based dashboard connecting to AI providers' official reporting APIs.

THE COST FOR YOUR TEAM

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Published plan prices for your team size and usage. Results update as you type. Taxes, currency conversion and unlisted add-ons are excluded, and anything the source did not state is called out rather than guessed.

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Known monthly subtotal

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Tool / plan	Monthly	Per year	What this assumes
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A practical workflow

Connect a provider by pasting one admin key, verified live in seconds.
Discover every API key in the account automatically with a full year of history backfilled.
Rename each key inline to the app it powers for easy identification.
View a unified chart showing cost per day grouped by app, provider, model, or key.

Based on the sources below. Editorial review does not imply hands-on product testing.

Alternatives to explore

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Billguard

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BillGuard is a spend monitoring tool that merges usage data from OpenAI and Anthropic to forecast AI billing and alert users before exceeding budgets. It operates with a read-only key, requires no code changes or proxies, and sends alerts via email, Telegram, or Slack.

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Sources & research

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