burnban
Meter and cap AI agent spend on your own machine
What this is
A local, open-source binary that meters and caps AI agent spend on your own machine for developers who want budget control without sending usage data to a dashboard.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- A local binary sits in the request path, meters every token spent by AI agents, and enforces spend caps before they're exceeded; also compares your flat-rate plan against real metered rates.
- What's different
- Open source (MIT); sync and team budgets are planned but not yet available.
- Best for
- Developers running AI agents who want local spend control without a hosted dashboard.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 12 days
- Last checked
- 9d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
AI. Launched 12d ago on Product Hunt, picking up 6 votes. Today, it's been quiet for 12 days and the price has started to bleed.
Already bleeding a little every day, and it accelerates the longer it stays quiet.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It launched on Product Hunt with 6 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
En eski 1 hareket bu listede yok — toplam 13 olay var. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
Daily tracking just started for this launch — the first point is on the board. A second reading lands with tomorrow's run, and the curve builds from there.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
burnban is the local instrument for AI agent spend. One binary sits in the request path, meters every token, and caps budgets before they blow instead of after. Nothing leaves your machine, so there is no dashboard to log into and no traffic to hand over. It also prices your flat-rate plan against real metered rates, so you finally see what those tokens are worth. Open source and MIT licensed. Sync and team budgets are next; the waitlist at burnban.dev sees them first.
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Hunt | 6 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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