A single free user can bankrupt your AI app overnight.

That's not abuse — that's your broken billing model.

If you can't cap cost per user BEFORE the request hits OpenAI, you don't have a product.

You have an open tab with a logo on it.

Most AI founders are bleeding money because they never built cost guardrails. One power user spamming GPT-4 calls = your entire month's revenue gone.

Fix your infra or get rekt. Simple as that.