AI Gateway Bill Reconciler

Unified billing, price comparison, and alerts for developers juggling multiple AI gateways

Problem

Developers on V2EX and elsewhere are actively discussing AI API gateway resellers, complaining about opaque pricing, confusing bills, unverifiable uptime, and messy usage details. Some even run their own reselling shops. Users keep switching between gateways but have no neutral tool to compare prices, verify claims, or track spending.

Solution

A local-first reconciliation tool: it polls balance/billing APIs from common gateways or lets users paste billing CSVs, unifies spend, computes real per-model unit prices, and alerts on sudden price hikes or balance drops. A public gateway price comparison page drives traffic, but core data stays on the user's machine.

Users

Indie developers using multiple AI gateways, AI agent builders, automation script authors, and small teams

MVP

Import or scrape bills from 3-5 common gateways; unified daily/per-model spend view; compute and rank real unit prices; email or webhook alerts when balance drops below a threshold; static public price comparison page

Revenue

Free base tier plus monthly subscription for multi-gateway auto-sync and alerts; paid placement or reconciliation API for gateway vendors

Why now

The AI gateway reseller ecosystem is growing wildly with extremely opaque pricing and billing; demand for a neutral reconciler is real and urgent, and a local-first architecture sidesteps privacy and trust concerns, letting an indie dev ship in weeks.