Catch a runaway LLM bill the same afternoon. Not at month-end.
PulseMeter is the early-warning system for your AI spend. Paste a read-only key, set a budget, and get Slack + email alerts the moment spend spikes across OpenAI, Anthropic and more.
Reads billing data only. Never your prompts or customer data.
Spike detected: OpenAI is up 86% vs your 7-day average. Sent to #eng-alerts.
Spend this month
$18,240
reconciled · UTC
Projected month-end
$27,900
+18% vs last month
Today (estimated)
~$1,120
hourly
Daily spend · last 15 days
Connects to the tools you already pay for
The bill arrives too late to do anything about it.
A retry loop, a bad prompt template, a jump in traffic: LLM spend can 5× overnight. Most teams find out 30 days later when finance forwards the invoice. By then the money's gone.
- Spend is split across OpenAI, Anthropic and more, with no single number to watch.
- Provider dashboards show yesterday's totals, per provider.
- Observability tools need you to instrument code or run a proxy.
PulseMeter watches spend so you don't have to.
Hourly detection
We estimate live spend hourly and reconcile nightly against the official cost report.
Proactive alerts
Budget, spike, projection and connection-health alerts to Slack + email.
One cross-provider number
Every provider rolled into a single budget and a single dashboard.
Live in five minutes
No SDK. No proxy. No code changes. Three steps.
Paste a read-only key
Create a scoped admin key at your provider. We walk you through it and encrypt it at rest.
Set a budget
One monthly budget across all providers. We learn your baseline automatically.
Connect Slack
Pick a channel and an email. That's it. We'll ping you only when it matters.
An alarm system, not another dashboard
Everything you need to sleep through the night while your app talks to the models.
Spike detection
Weekday-aware baselines flag anomalies before they compound.
Month-end projection
Blended run-rate forecasting warns you early, not on day 3.
Connection health
Know instantly if a key is revoked or a sync goes stale.
Per-model attribution
See exactly which model and provider drove the spike.
Slack + email
Alerts land where your team already is, with sensible cooldowns.
Billing-only access
Read-only keys. We never see prompts, responses or user data.
Where PulseMeter fits
Provider limits and dev-observability tools solve different problems. We're the layer that warns a human in time.
| Capability | Provider limits | Dev observability | PulseMeter |
|---|---|---|---|
| No-code setup | |||
| Cross-provider rollup | |||
| Hourly detection | |||
| Slack alerts | partial | ||
| Spike + projection alerts |
Comparison reflects typical offerings as of 2026 and is for general guidance.
Simple pricing that pays for itself
One prevented overrun covers a year. Start free, upgrade when you want hourly alerts.
Free
Kick the tires on one provider.
- 1 provider connection
- Daily reconciled spend data
- Email alerts
- 1 monthly budget
- Cross-provider dashboard
Starter
The early-warning system, switched on.
- All providers
- Hourly spike detection
- Slack + email alerts
- 3 budgets
- Connection-health alerts
- 14-day free trial
Pro
For agencies and teams running real volume.
- Everything in Starter
- Per-key attribution + nicknames
- Month-end projection alerts
- Unlimited budgets
- Team workspace
- Priority sync + CSV export
Questions, answered
Stop finding out at month-end.
Connect OpenAI and Anthropic in five minutes and get your first alert today.