Dashboard

Cost

cohostly cost describes what AI and hosting cost in plain sentences, with every figure marked as an estimate.

cohostly cost tells you, in plain sentences, roughly what a project or all your projects cost. Think of a fuel gauge, not a receipt. It tells you about how much is left and how fast you are using it. It is not a bill.

Every figure is an estimate and the output says so. Hosting is estimated from the time the app ran. AI is estimated from recorded use and a price table. Models you pay for with your own key are billed by their provider. The platform only estimates them.

Usage

Terminal
cohostly cost [project] [--project <name> | -p <name>] [--terms] [--json]
[project]text
One project. With none, you get all your projects.
--project <name>, -p <name>text
Same, as a flag.
--termson or off
Also print the prices used and what each word means. Default off.
--jsonon or off
Print the raw answer for a script. Default off.

Who may run it: a viewer or higher, for a project. For all projects, anyone signed in sees their own account's projects.

What it prints

$ cohostly cost --project todo
Cost of todo

This month so far: about $2 (AI $1.5, hosting 50 cents). This is an estimate.

At the pace of the last 7 days: about $7 a month, of which $2 is fixed hosting and $5 grows with use (an estimate).

Assumptions: AI cost is what the model providers charged for each call, as recorded when the call was made; ...

AI budget this month: $1.70 of $2.00 (85%) - close to the limit. Set bindings.ai.monthly_cap_usd in the manifest (up to the account limit) and deploy.

In order:

  1. A title (Cost of <project>, or Cost across your projects).
  2. Sentences: this month so far, the pace of the last 7 days, spend on your own keys, and an If 50 people used it projection when the number of recent users is known. Then Assumptions: ....
  3. The AI budget line: AI budget this month: $X of $Y (N%). At 80% it adds - close to the limit. and how to raise it. When the limit is reached it adds - AI calls are stopped until next month. and how to raise it.
  4. With --terms: Prices used (per million tokens: input / output / cached input): and What the words mean:.
  5. Up to 10 notices: Notice (<date>): ....
  6. Who used the AI (last 7 days): and Per project (this month so far / monthly pace):.

The default budget is a small amount per project and per account each month. For the current numbers see limits. To raise a project's cap, see AI models and costs.

Files read and written

None. Uses the saved key (or PLATFORM_API_KEY) and API_URL. A network failure prints Fatal: TypeError: fetch failed.

Exit codes

0 on success. 1 on any failure, and for an unknown flag the usage line Usage: platform cost [--project name] [--terms] [--json].

Examples

See one project and the words behind the numbers:

Terminal
cohostly cost shop --terms

See all projects:

Terminal
cohostly cost

Feed a dashboard script:

Terminal
cohostly cost --project shop --json
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