I checked my OpenAI and Anthropic dashboards every morning for a month. Then I stopped.

Short summary

The author found checking separate OpenAI and Anthropic billing dashboards daily cumbersome and error-prone. After losing track of budgets across multiple accounts, they unified billing tracking. This workflow optimization led to building Apiarium, a product for developers managing costs across multiple LLM providers.

• •Repetitive dashboard-checking across multiple LLM providers created daily friction
• •Budget tracking became unreliable when managing separate accounts and guardrails
• •Solution: unified billing tracker (Apiarium) abstracting provider differences

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