Track and cap AI API/tool spending for solo devs to avoid overspend

Track and cap AI API/tool spending for solo devs to avoid overspend targets a $3.6B = 6M solo/micro-team developers × $600 ACV (annual avg AI + tool spend) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 30% YoY growth in developer tooling and AI platform spend (source: Stack Overflow developer trends + market signals from AI API providers and VC investment in developer tooling).

Key trends driving demand: Per-request API pricing — creates unpredictable monthly bills and increases demand for real-time cost controls.; Proliferation of AI providers — developers use multiple models and services, creating fragmentation that centralized spend tools can solve.; Indie developer economy growth — more solo founders ship paid products, increasing the pool of users who care about predictable tooling spend..