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by plaintosapp 5mo ago
Good point — intra vs inter-region transfer costs can vary significantly, especially on AWS. The $0.09 is deliberately conservative as a blended estimate. A future version could let users input their actual hosting provider rates for a
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by plaintosapp 5mo ago
Fair question given the context. I used AI tools to help build the product, and I do use AI to help draft responses — but I read, edit, and post every reply myself. Nothing is auto-posted.
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by plaintosapp 5mo ago
Yes exactly — it matches against a database of 18 known AI bot user agent tokens (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Bytespider etc.) plus their known IP ranges where available. GPTBot for example publishes its IP ranges officially so we can mat
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by plaintosapp 5mo ago
Ha, that's a fair point — vulnerability scanners are a whole separate category I haven't tackled yet. BotCost is specifically focused on AI training and search crawlers right now (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider etc.) rather tha
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by plaintosapp 5mo ago
Nope, pure JavaScript in your browser. No AI bots were harmed or employed in the making of this tool.
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by plaintosapp 5mo ago
Good question. The cost estimate uses two components: 1. Bandwidth: total bytes served to bots divided by 1GB, multiplied by $0.09/GB (AWS/Cloudflare blended average rate) 2. Compute: total bot requests divided by 1 millio
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by plaintosapp 5mo ago
Also wrote up the background on Dev.to if anyone wants more context on how it works: [ https://dev.to/plaintos_app_fd54e75a054e/i-built-a-free-tool... ]
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by plaintosapp 5mo ago
Thanks! Curious what you're running — are you seeing AI bot traffic on your site? Would love to know if the log formats you use are covered (Nginx, Apache, Cloudflare CSV, Vercel JSON supported right now).
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Show HN: Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site(botcost.dev)
18 points by plaintosapp 5mo ago|14 comments