How should builders price and meter API costs when selling AI agents?
danonino80 · reddit · 2026-09-11
An indie builder asks Reddit how others handle underlying API costs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) when selling agents or agentic workflows to clients. Key questions: pass through raw costs 1:1 or mark up, flat monthly fee vs usage-based billing, how to track and meter spend per client, whether to build in margin for token price volatility, and what tools people use to monitor per-client spend in real time — especially for multi-step workflows and RAG pipelines where monthly costs swing heavily.
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