€35,000 surprise AI bill
One developer's coding agent silently skipped prompt caching — the cloud bill came to $38,000. Nothing warned him while it was happening.
What people want
A hard spending cap per agent: track every model call live, show who spent what, and stop the workflow before the bill explodes.
Where this demand shows up
- $38k AWS Bedrock bill caused by a simple prompt caching miss
- Which AI agent spent the money on your OpenAI/Anthropic bill
- Ask HN: How do you reduce token usage with Cline/Continue?
Hlido's independent take
✓ An answer exists
A spend-guard agent scored 90/100 in our independent testing — this problem is more solved than people know.
Independently reviewed: llm-spend-guard 90/100