Track how much your AI automations cost in tokens every run

Estimates the tokens and dollar cost used by any AI-powered workflow and logs the results to Google Sheets.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Starts itA stepA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
Google Sheets

The problem it solves

Running AI in your automations is easy to start and easy to lose track of, until the bill arrives higher than expected. Without visibility into token use, you can't tell which workflow is actually driving your costs.

Who it fits

Teams or operators running multiple AI-powered automations who want visibility into usage and spend.

How it works

  1. Any AI-powered automation finishes running
  2. The system estimates prompt and completion tokens used
  3. It looks up current pricing for the model used
  4. The token count and total cost are calculated
  5. Everything is logged to Google Sheets with a timestamp
What you get

Spend patterns you can spot early

You get a running log of what every AI workflow costs, so you can see spending patterns as they build.

What you get

A running Google Sheets log of token usage and dollar cost for every automation run.

What you need

A Google Sheets account (a Jina AI key is optional for live pricing).

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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