For engineering teams

Cost regressions hide in deploys.
See them the same day.

LLM Cost Tracker gives engineering teams real-time deploy deltas, prompt version comparison, and wasted spend detection — so you catch regressions the day they ship, not the day the bill arrives.

Tag by prompt version
Track Wasted Spend
Latency Tracking
The problem

LLM costs are an
operational problem.

Three things that make it hard to ship AI features without cost surprises.

Problem 01
Deploy regressions are invisible until too late
You ship a prompt change on Wednesday. Token counts go up 40%. By Friday the cost spike shows up in Slack. You spend the weekend reverting. Without per-deploy cost data, every ship is a gamble.
Problem 02
Wasted spend on errors and retries
Calls that time out, return empty output, or get retried three times before succeeding — each one costs real money. Without a call log you can't see them. They're invisible line items that accumulate quietly every day.
Problem 03
No way to compare prompt versions
You rewrote the system prompt to improve output quality. Did it get more expensive? By how much? Input tokens, output tokens, latency — without version-tagged data you're guessing whether the change was worth it.
Deploy deltas

Know the cost impact
of every deploy — same day.

Tag your deploys with a promptVersion — a git SHA, a label, anything. The dashboard shows avg cost per call, input tokens, output tokens, and latency for each version side by side.

If cost goes up after a ship you'll see it in the version comparison before the next standup — not when finance asks questions at month end.

deploy.yml
# Set on deploy — auto-tags every call
DEPLOY_SHA=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)

# In your call site
trackedCall(({
  ...
  promptVersion: process.env.DEPLOY_SHA,
})
Prompt version comparison · search
VersionAvg costInput tokOutput tokLatency
a3f2c1dcurrent+38%
$0.08218,4201,2401,840ms
b9e4d2a
$0.05912,1009801,420ms
c1a8f3b
$0.06112,8401,0101,510ms

a3f2c1d costs 38% more per call than the previous version — input tokens jumped from 12,100 to 18,420. Likely a context window change in the system prompt.

Call log · search · today$84 wasted
ModelTokensCostStatus
claude-sonnet-4-618,441$0.111ok
claude-sonnet-4-622,100$0.133no output
claude-sonnet-4-619,840$0.119no output
claude-haiku-4-53,200$0.004ok
claude-sonnet-4-621,200$0.127timeout
claude-sonnet-4-618,900$0.114ok

2 no-output calls + 1 timeout = $0.373 wasted in this sample alone. At this call volume that's ~$84/day burning silently.

Wasted spend

Every failed call
still costs money.
See exactly which ones.

Calls that return zero output tokens — timeouts, errors, empty responses — are flagged automatically in the call log. You can see them the same day they happen, not when you audit your API bill.

In RAG applications, retry storms are especially costly — a single bad query can trigger three or four full-context calls before failing. The call log surfaces the pattern so you can fix the root cause.

No outputZero output tokens — the model returned nothing
TimeoutCall initiated but never completed
RetryMultiple calls in rapid succession for the same query
Full observability

Everything you'd want to know
about an LLM call. All of it.

Cost by group
Break your bill down by feature — search, summarize, chat, classify. See which one is driving costs and by how much.
Cost by user
Rank internal users or customers by spend. Spot the outliers before they become a problem.
Latency tracking
Wall-clock ms on every call. See avg latency per group and correlate slowdowns with prompt changes or model swaps.
Prompt version deltas
Tag deploys with a git SHA. Compare cost, tokens, and latency across any two versions side by side.
Wasted spend detection
No-output calls, timeouts, and retry patterns flagged automatically. Know your real effective cost per successful call.
Real-time call feed
Every call as it happens. Model, tokens, cost, latency, status. The ground truth for everything the dashboard aggregates.
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