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Show HN: Tracking GenAI cost and endpoint fragility so app teams don't have to

LLMIntel, a new tool for tracking generative AI costs and endpoint fragility, launched on Hacker News. The dashboard monitors model pricing, retirement dates, and cost drift across applications, helping engineering teams manage spending and avoid service disruptions. The demo shows a week of realistic traffic from three apps, with features for cost optimization and migration recommendations.

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Show HN: Tracking GenAI cost and endpoint fragility so app teams don't have to
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A sample LLMIntel dashboard with a week of realistic traffic across three apps.

You’re viewing demo data — this is what LLMIntel looks like with a week of real traffic. Sign up and your own data appears minutes after your first instrumented call.

Model State Retirement
Pricing known for 6 of 6 models you run. Cheapest by input: [gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07](/models/openai/gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07) at $0.05/1M.

Want cheaper/faster on-par alternatives for these models? [See optimization →](#optimization)

Times in UTC · 13 months of history on your plan · sample data — send telemetry to see your own, range-filtered

Cost is frozen at ingest — priced from each model's rates at call time, so past spend never shifts. Window: last 30 days.

Telemetry up to Jul 7, 16:51 UTC· 8 min ago· Catalog checked 42 min ago

These models are returning more output per input token than their 30-day baseline — the usual cause of silent cost creep. Check prompts, max_tokens

, and whether a cheaper or more concise model would do.

Model Now Baseline Drift Requests Spend

Dollars flowing through models that retire within 90 days. Migrate before the provider 4xxs you — see recommended replacements on each model page.

Model Retirement Spend
Environment › Application Requests Tokens Blended $/1M Cost/req Spend Share
prod 379,000 86M $13.16 $0.0030 $1,131.66 88%
Checkout Assistant 261,000 58M $12.77 $0.0028 $742.11 58%
Support Copilot 118,000 28M $13.96 $0.0033 $389.55 30%
staging 33,000 10M $14.65 $0.0046 $152.40 12%
Unassignedno app mapping 33,000 10M $14.65 $0.0046 $152.40 12%

app

tag your agent sends or the API key's app mapping; calls with neither show as app

tag). | feature | Requests | Tokens | Blended $/1M | Cost/req | Spend | Share | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | checkout | 214,000 | 48M | $12.51 | $0.0028 | $604.32 | 47% | | search | 121,000 | 28M | $14.54 | $0.0033 | $401.18 | 31% | | summarize | 54,000 | 13M | $14.68 | $0.0035 | $187.96 | 15% | | Untaggedno feature tag | 23,000 | 7.7M | $11.77 | $0.0039 | $90.60 | 7% |

team Requests Tokens Blended $/1M Cost/req Spend Share
growth 268,000 61M $12.75 $0.0029 $771.24 60%
platform 144,000 33M $13.70 $0.0031 $452.22 35%
Untaggedno team tag 0 4.3M $14.09 $60.60 5%
Model Provider Requests Input Output Blended $/1M Cost/req Tokens/req Out:in Spend
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