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OpenAI Tells You What You Spent. Not Where. So I Built a Dashboard.

Ali Afana

Ali Afana

April 30, 2026

OpenAI Tells You What You Spent. Not Where. So I Built a Dashboard.

OpenAI's billing page shows total spend. It doesn't show which feature, which tenant, or which conversation caused it. I built a 3-file monitoring system that does — and the first time I opened it, I caught a 100× cost gap between two features I'd been treating as similar.

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