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HN · launched May 11, 2026 · 18 upvotes (top 28%) · 0 views
Niche: api pricing and infrastructure cost calculators · 42 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 42 launches in api pricing and infrastructure cost calculators →
Could you build this?
Yes A web utility that estimates bandwidth and server costs from AI scrapers based on user-provided domain or log inputs and known bot IP/user-agent lists is simple frontend and scraping/analysis logic.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Cloudflare, Vercel, AWS, Lambda
Concerns raised: Cannot detect bots that spoof Chrome headers, Does not cover vulnerability scanners, Transfer costs vary significantly by region and provider, Only catches polite bots that self-identify
Feature requests: Allow users to input their actual hosting provider rates, Support for additional log formats beyond Nginx, Apache, Cloudflare, Vercel, Detect spoofed user agent values, Cover vulnerability scanners in addition to AI bots
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 811 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #200 of 811 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 192 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pay-per-Crawl · hn · 2026-10-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- CostPerPrompt · hn · 2026-08-02 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Knock-Knock.net · hn · 2026-02-15 · 224 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- AI Agent Cost Calculator · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Open tool for testing your AI Agents (No LLM) · hn · 2026-08-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- AI Price Guide · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Token Wise · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Botview.app · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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