... Running agents in production is getting expensive fast especially when something loops, retries, or a user abuses the system. Curious what others are actually doing: Relying on provider-side billing alerts? Hard limits set on the OpenAI/Anthropic dashboard? Custom solution you built yourself? Nothing yet and just hoping for the best?    I've been deep in this problem lately actually built something around it (launching tomorrow on PH). Would love to hear real approaches first though ... ... especially from anyone running multi-tenant SaaS where you need per-user cost control. Comment from Nida E Zahra Zaidi(@nidaezahraaa): honestly... once you start running multi-tenant ai products, provider-side billing

... Meet Karobar Running a small business shouldn t feel like juggling bills, stock, and calculations all day. Karobar is a simple, powerful app that helps you manage: Billing

... Sunil here. Quick context: AI Velocity Pods isn't a tool or platform. It's how we structure engineering engagements, AI agents paired with senior engineers, fixed price, tied to a defined outcome instead of hourly billing. We built it because billing

... honestly, the pricing difference is wild. Same bare-metal performance, global edge infrastructure with sub-100ms latency, no egress fees, no hidden markups. What's everyone paying for cloud compute right now? Curious if others have found good alternatives. Comment from Om Gupta(@itsomg): @second_son_of_god  we give egress free and use NVMe storage so every major drone company is using us now for all the ML things they run on videos right ... ... changes in your arch we moved many companies off of GCP and AWS and got a lot of real life idea on how to do it Comment from Om Gupta(@itsomg): @sk_uxpin  yeah if you manage the billing

... nodeops.network/createos/docs/MPP The problem When an AI agent needs to use a paid service, the payment step almost always requires a human. Someone has to create an account, agree to terms, enter a credit card or set up billing, and hand the agent an API key. The agent can call the service autonomously, but the commercial relationship is still bootstrapped by a person. This works, but it means every new service an agent wants to use requires a human ... ... billing

... photoreal renders from multiple angles. Three styled directions, accurate to the real space geometry, in a single session. Then something unexpected happened. Designers started telling us the tool didn't just make their work faster. It made their hourly billing model feel broken. Here's why: when your AI 3D visualization workflow produces three design directions in the time it used to take to brief a render studio, billing

... KeelStack is for developers who ship SaaS, not tutorials. 1. Target professional & role Solo founders / indie hackers Builders who need to launch quickly but don t want to waste weeks wiring auth, billing, and job queues from scratch every project. CTOs & lead engineers Technical leaders at early stage startups who worry about silent failures like job loss, duplicate Stripe charges, or race condition induced data corruption as they scale past 1,000 10,000 requests per minute. Full ... ... repo. 2. Business stage & tech needs Stage: Pre launch to early growth Teams going from 100 1,000 users to 1,000 10,000+ requests per minute, where it works in dev is no longer enough. Pain points: Billing

... review the logic and have it review the implementation before anything gets merged. Two things that I do almost every time that has significantly improved the quality is to have the agent do a gap analysis of the plan vs the implementation and then do a review for efficiency optimizations, code consolidation, and speed improvements. Very rarely does it say everything is cool to merge. I think we're still a bit away from the full hands off approach ... ... will need to put in for a desired customer satisfaction, just that in this case we are our own customers, in other words, how many human hours are needed for a 92% confidence that nothing is gona break vs

... Problem: Small businesses spend 12-20 hours monthly on billing administration time that could generate revenue instead. Manual invoicing creates errors, delays payments (35-45 day average), and looks unprofessional to enterprise clients. Solution approach: Cloud-based invoice management system handling repetitive billing

... founder of Munch. I built this because I kept watching creators spend hours turning one video into posts. You paste a YouTube or Vimeo URL Munch extracts the transcript using 5 fallback strategies (so it actually works on videos competitors choke on) Claude AI writes 8 complete, platform-ready pieces in ~60 seconds. No file uploads. No per-action credits. One munch = everything. PH exclusive: Your first munch is completely free, no card needed. Just sign up at munch.video ... ... Post 2. X Thread 3. Newsletter Section 4. Carousel Slide Guide 5. YouTube Description + Tags 6. Pull Quotes 7. Marketing Email (subject line, preview text, full body, CTA) 8. SEO Blog Post One input. Eight outputs. No per-format billing

... Post 2. X Thread 3. Newsletter Section 4. Carousel Slide Guide 5. YouTube Description + Tags 6. Pull Quotes 7. Marketing Email (subject line, preview text, full body, CTA) 8. SEO Blog Post One input. Eight outputs. No per-format billing. About 60 seconds. TRANSCRIPT EXTRACTION WHY THIS MATTERS ----------------------------------------- Most tools hit one YouTube endpoint. If it's geo-restricted, a non-standard embed, or YouTube just blocks it that day, you get an error and that's that. Munch runs ... ... referral credits per month per referrer. Promo codes: Redeem codes for bonus munches or discounts. Pay As You Go: 20 credits for $9 one-time. No subscription. Includes all 8 outputs including SEO Blog Post. Annual billing

... Computer Science student doing research into how solopreneurs and small startups create new apps and what their stack looks like. Particularly, I'm interested in how you handle things like authentication, billing, and permissions/authorization in your apps. Let me know what you're working on below and how you're going about it -- I'd love to connect for some quick calls to learn about your product and talk about your process in building it! Comment from Vihaan Kodiganti(@vsync

... store blurb: Sublime helps you take control of your recurring subscriptions in one beautifully simple app. Track every subscription you're paying for streaming services, software, gym memberships, and more. See exactly what you're spending and when each bill is due. TRACK YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS Add all your subscriptions with cost, billing

... build software so quickly and cheaply that SaaS is dead (or will be soon). Why pay for Linear when AI can build a project tracker in an afternoon? Why pay Stripe $30k/year when you can vibe code your own billing system in a weekend? The cost of building software has collapsed to near zero, therefore the value of selling software has collapsed to near zero. QED, SaaS is dead. This sounds right, but it s not. It confuses the cost ... ... building software with the cost of owning software. These are very different things. That weekend you spent vibe coding a billing

... product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market. That shift requires real architectural changes, instrumentation, metering, billing logic, and UI changes, not just pricing tweaks. It s something I m starting to seriously think about for my own product. In particular, AI usage has real COGs (every prompt costs money), and I m seeing more platforms experimenting ... ... subsidized consumer pricing (as Anthropic is doing). You can't compete with them on this, and it makes the consumer -> enterprise upsell path challenging. Comment from AJ(@build_with_aj): Saas subscriptions were appealing because they offered predictable billing

... After countless conversations with SaaS founders, the same thing keeps coming up: they want to monetize their product, not wrestle with invoices & pricings. Yet most billing tools are either pricey, rigid, or both. That s why we built Meteroid : Open-source Fair Flexible Billing

... Product Hunt Over the last few hours, a lot more people signed up than I initially expected thank you for the incredible response Because of that growth, I pushed a quick but important update: I added a Billing tab so you can clearly see your current subscription details directly in the dashboard. No confusion, no hidden state just transparency. Supaguard is still early, and I want pricing and access to feel straightforward as we scale. Why free PRO? Supaguard.pro scans ... ... great time to try it. Try it, break it, and tell me what doesn t work. I m actively shipping based on your feedback. Vikas Founder, Supaguard.pro Comment from Bhavin Sheth(@allinonetools_net): Love this approach.... Adding billing

... Happy New Year, Product Hunt! Over the past few months, I ve been building @INVBot , a simple AI-powered tool for small businesses and shop owners who still rely on handwritten bills and manual records. The problem I kept seeing: Handwritten bills

... FigForm You can now invite colleagues, clients, or partners into a shared workspace so you can design, edit, and manage forms together (without sharing passwords). What's included Invite one or multiple emails at once Clear statuses: Active vs Invited Invites expire in 7 days (and you can resend ) Delete an invite before it's accepted Remove active members anytime Roles (today) Invited members join as Admin with near-full access (forms, responses, analytics, integrations, billing

... moves money directly between bank accounts, it has become one of the most trusted payment methods for small businesses and customers alike. ACH payments were created to replace paper checks, reduce processing time, and offer a more secure alternative. Over the years, the system has evolved to support everything from payroll deposits to subscription billing

... Product Hunt community! We just shipped something I'm genuinely excited about Credit-Based Billing is now live on Atlas! Here's the problem we kept hearing: customers want to know exactly where they stand with their usage. Not at the end of the month. Not when they get a surprise bill

... Product Hunt I m Murilo, founder of Valora.tech the monetization layer for the AI age. I ve seen too many brilliant AI founders building incredible agents but billing them like old-school SaaS. When every execution has a real cost LLM calls, APIs, GPUs margins collapse from 80% to 40%, and no one knows who s actually profitable. So we built Valora: Real-time cost tracking per client, task, and model Outcome-based pricing and billing

... Product Hunt fam! We just shipped something we've been super excited about at Atlas - Usage-Based Billing is now live! For those building products where usage can vary wildly from customer to customer (looking at you, AI tools and API platforms ), this one's for you. Here's the deal: Fair pricing for everyone - Your customers only pay for what they actually use. No more overpaying for seats they don't need or features they don't touch. Move ...

... should help new boards get moving faster. What s new Public boards: enhanced cards with cleaner UX and a fresh design. Next-gen cards: groundwork that will roll out across Kanbanq. Add Tasks: inline, viewport-aware task creation. Billing reliability: pro unlocks as it should and account details save. Why we changed it Numbers showed friction at task zero and feedback matched it. So we moved the button where your cursor and eyes already are. Try it Use the open ...

... Brad, founder of Coder B Dev, Inc. and currently shipping Billivio, a backend billing