Cost Control Guides

Your OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini bill spiked. Here are the most common causes—exposed keys, abuse, inefficient prompts—and how to fix them.

An unexpected AWS bill can ruin your month. Here's a practical checklist to find the cause—and how to prevent it from happening again.

You set up AWS Budgets but alerts never arrived. Here's how to fix the most common issues and get alerts working.

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection flags unusual spending. Here's how to set it up—monitors, alerts, and root cause analysis.

Your Lambda bill spiked. Runaway invocations, high memory, recursive triggers. Here's how to find and fix it.

Reduce your cloud bill. Unused resources, right-sizing, reservations, and alerts. A practical checklist.

Your Gemini API bill exploded. Here's how to stop the bleed, rotate keys, and prevent future misuse.

AI API bills can explode overnight. Here's how to cap usage per user, set quotas, and monitor spend before it's too late.

Your OpenAI bill jumped. Here's what to check first: leaked keys, abuse, missing rate limits, or traffic spikes.

AWS Budgets can stop surprise bills—if you configure them correctly. Here's the step-by-step setup that works.

Your AWS bill spiked and you don't know why. Here are the most common causes and how to find them.