Here’s a confession — I recently sat down and tried to count how many AI subscriptions I’m paying for. ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Cursor, Midjourney, Perplexity, ElevenLabs… I lost track somewhere around the seventh one. And honestly, I had no idea what the total damage was each month. Turns out I’m not alone, and that’s exactly the problem [Toolspend](https://toolspend.com/) is built to solve.
Toolspend launched on [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/toolspend) on February 17th and racked up around 400 upvotes pretty quickly, which tells you something about how many people relate to this pain point. The concept is straightforward: connect your AI service accounts and banking data, and Toolspend pulls everything together into one dashboard so you can actually see where your money is going.
What I find genuinely useful here is that it doesn’t just list your subscriptions like a glorified spreadsheet. It digs into usage patterns — breaking things down by model, endpoint, and token consumption — then flags subscriptions you’re barely touching and tools that overlap with each other. That “duplicate detection” alone could save some teams a surprising amount. I know for a fact I’ve been paying for two tools that do basically the same thing, and I just never bothered to cancel one.
The team behind Toolspend says they built it because they hit the same wall themselves. Engineering teams track token usage, finance tracks credit card charges, and those two worlds rarely overlap. Toolspend bridges that gap by sitting in the middle and correlating actual usage with actual spend. It also sends renewal alerts, which is a small feature but honestly one of the most practical — nothing worse than getting hit with an auto-renewal for something you forgot you signed up for.
Is it for everyone? Probably not if you only use one or two AI tools. But if you’re like most people in tech right now, juggling five to ten AI subscriptions across personal and work accounts, this thing feels overdue. The average person’s AI tooling budget has quietly ballooned into serious money, and having one place to track it all just makes sense.
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