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AI Costs
qmediat · App
AI Costs works out what a block of AI-assisted work cost and prices it three ways: what you really paid, with subscriptions prorated to the time window and pay-per-token keys at list price; the same tokens at list price as if no subscription existed; and a vendor quote. It reads usage already on your disk, such as coding agent transcripts and session records or a usage log that any program can write, and runs as a single Python file. Reports can cover a set number of hours across all projects and can be scheduled.
Written by ooruby from the README of ai-costs 2.9.0.
Not claimed by its maker. Is this yours? Prove it and answer the findings
Why it's useful
You can see what a stretch of AI-assisted work cost under your subscriptions and what it would cost at list API prices.
What you could do with it
- Report what the last day of AI-assisted work cost across all of your projects.
- Compare what you paid under subscriptions with the same tokens priced at list API rates.
- Have a script of your own write a usage log and include that work in the same cost report.
Written from its documentation: what it says it can do, not what our checks found.
Maintenance
Not measuredNo release date is on record for this package yet. The nightly publisher check records one as it reaches each npm package, about once every ten nights.
Release activity only: it says nothing about quality or safety, and a finished small package can be fine without releases. How it is measured
- Command execution is bounded
- inventory
- node child_process (bin/ai-cost.js:7)
- synchronous shell execution (bin/ai-cost.js:35)
- An inventory of where the code starts another program, not a verdict on this row: whether each one runs a fixed program or whatever it is handed takes a reading by hand.
- Data handling disclosed
- finding
- no statement of what it reads, writes or sends (README.md)
Published because it was found. A finding is information about where the limits are, not a verdict that the software is unsafe.
What this does not cover
- Everything. Treat it as you would software from anywhere else.
Receipt history: every signed receipt for every version of this listing, and what changed between them.
In its maker's words
What a block of AI-assisted work cost: real, API-only equivalent, vendor quote — from the usage already on disk
Compare with
Compare all 4How far this has been checked
Static scanned
- What it establishes
- Its published package, or for a hosted server its source repository at a recorded commit, was read file by file, without running it, by every check in our current scan.
- What it does not
- How it behaves when it runs, or anything the scan does not read yet: several rubric checks, the repository's history, and compiled code in folders named dist or build. For a hosted server, that the endpoint runs the code that was read. The ooruby Index sets out exactly what was read.
- Exactly what was read
- Version 2.9.0, the file with digest sha512-f7k/dcPj8+PLUDf+eixpnjL1RZlT0vTX4QLd3DVvBBxS6++03he3N+YRix7/jT9iE3E+w2PFVHIz7xYBOwU6sQ==, as the registry publishes it. A published version cannot be replaced, so this names the same bytes for anyone who checks.
- Authentication
- Runs locally. No hosted endpoint is listed for this package. You run it on your own machine, so there is no endpoint of ours to authenticate against.
Adding it
Run it with:
npx -y ai-costs@2.9.0Pinned to 2.9.0, which is the version the findings above were found in. Drop the version to take whatever is newest, and the report on this page stops describing what you installed.
Where this came from
- Registry
- npm
- Package
- ai-costs
- Version read
- 2.9.0
- Resolved
- 2026-10-10
Built from source, attested
npm publishes a signed statement that this exact package was built from the repository below, at this commit. It is verifiable without taking our word for it.
- Repository
- github.com/qmediat/ai-cost
- Commit
- d1fb8904904b
- Built by
- github.com/actions/runner/github-hosted
- Registry publish attestation
- signed by npm · 2026-10-10
- Checked
- 2026-10-10
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It renders the current rung (static scanned) and links back here, where what that does and does not establish is one click away. It updates itself as the evidence deepens.
[](https://ooruby.com/market/ai-costs)About this listing
- Kind
- App
- Category
- Finance & ops
- Pricing
- Free
- Sandbox
- No
- Hosted
- No
- Updated
- 2026-10-06
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