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AgentMeter

Your AI coding bill is quadratic. We'll show you where.

01The Problem

Your team adopted AI coding agents and nobody knows what they cost. A single feature conversation hits $13. Power users burn $500/month. By 50K tokens, 87% of every API call is cache reads. It's the AWS bill surprise all over again — but worse, because agent costs grow quadratically.

02The Solution

A lightweight proxy between your agents and the LLM. Real-time cost per conversation. Alerts when a session gets expensive. Team dashboards. Budget limits per dev. Zero code changes — just swap your API URL.

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Idea Score: 6,048