Opportunity ledger / Dossier O-0942
Monitor LLM API spending and usage across providers, compare prices, and expose markups or lower-cost alternatives.
First seen 2026-07-14 · Last updated 2026-10-23 · Recalculated daily
These observations describe collected samples, not platform-wide prevalence; they cannot establish whether a problem is widespread or accelerating. Collection scope changed on 09-16 and 09-27; monthly counts must not be read as trends.
Post title: Show HN: Oodle.ai – $10 per million agent traces
Dang that’s expensive. We pay $0.75/M through a vendor
Post title: Is this API usage/cost normal for DeepSeek-v4-flash? (7$ for 240m tokens)
Does a total of ~$7 for ~2.3k requests look normal…
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Evidence confidence = strength × evidence volume × source diversity × payment × competition × trend × 10. Counts use independent content items; only first-hand pain, current spend, explicit willingness to pay and concrete feature requests affect the score. Repeated posts by one author are discounted. Scoring and status changes follow deterministic rules.
“Payment-backed” means first-hand payment evidence exists in the record. It does not mean the business is worth building. “Fading” is a recency tag shown alongside any evidence level, not a lower level. Read the full methodology.