Nicheloom

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Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site

Details

External ID
48096045
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site
Website domain
botcost.dev
Launched
May 11, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
18
Upvotes percentile
0.7245557350565428
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
social media violation reporting automation
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
B2B
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
ai bot cost monitoring tool
Manually corrected
False

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 — 319 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #72 of 320 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 192 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.