Know what your AI production really costs.
Set a budget and estimate your whole stack — subscriptions and API, re-rolls priced in. Then track what you actually burn, down to cost per finished video. Prices verified against every tool's official page — with an alert the moment a platform quietly changes its rates.
20 tools covered · every price verified & dated · updated when platforms change
What the pricing page won't show you
generations burned per one usable clip
real cost per minute of finished AI video
what $35 buys in flagship 4K video credits
every tool bills in its own units
You pay sticker price for every video you tried — not just the ones you kept.
What CostWatcher shows you instead
An estimate that fits your budget
One project, your whole stack — Kling, ElevenLabs and an API block in one estimate, re-rolls priced in. Start from verified catalog plans, adjust a price to your deal, or add a tool we don't list.
Actuals without the spreadsheet
Paste what your dashboard shows — no spreadsheet, no logging every re-roll. We count them for you: the real cost per finished minute, tracked against your budget as you work.
A living price database
Every price is verified against the tool's official page and dated. When a platform quietly changes a rate or cap, you get an alert with the recalculated impact on your cost per finished minute.
Inside the product
On the roadmap
Where CostWatcher is headed next.
Ask your AI assistant
Connect CostWatcher over MCP and pull live plan capacity and your project costs right into Claude or ChatGPT.
AI budget planner
Describe the deliverable, get a credit budget — tools, plans, and re-rolls priced before you burn anything.
Auto-connectors
Actual spend pulled in automatically, starting with ElevenLabs — no manual snapshots.
The full product opens to this list first
Be first when it opens
Project budgets with plan-vs-actuals, the verified catalog, price alerts — we launch in waves, and invites go out in list order. Drop your email to lock your spot; your link to the live capacity calculator lands in your inbox right away. One email at launch, nothing else.
We're building the full product: project budgets with plan-vs-actuals tracking, a verified price catalog, and alerts when platforms change their pricing. We launch in waves — the early list gets invites first. One email when yours is ready, nothing else.
Questions, answered
Which tools are covered?
20 at launch: Kling, Runway, Veo (Google Flow), Hailuo, Luma, PixVerse, Seedance, Grok Imagine, HeyGen, Synthesia, Colossyan, Midjourney, Nano Banana, Ideogram, Leonardo, GPT Image, ElevenLabs, Suno, Udio, Flow Music. The list keeps growing.
Where do prices come from?
A maintained, versioned price database of every tool's plans and credit rates. Every entry carries a verified-at date and a link to the official pricing page — when a platform changes pricing silently (and they do), we re-verify and version the change. And soon: alert you.
What if my deal is different — or my tool isn't listed?
Start from the catalog and adjust the price or credit volume to your actual deal — annual discount, referral bonus credits. Tools we don't cover yet, including API pay-per-call billing, can be priced manually: estimates and actuals still work; price alerts need a cataloged tool.
How does actuals tracking work?
You paste what your tool's dashboard shows — balance, plan — and we turn it into a snapshot: real waste ratio, cost per finished minute, plan vs budget. One explicit action each time; no silent background access — auto-connectors will always be opt-in.
When does it open?
In waves — the early list gets invites first. The capacity calculator is already live: your link arrives right after you sign up.