Definition

What is metered pricing trap?

A metered pricing trap is usage-based billing, charged per token or per request, where cost scales silently with adoption and no fixed cap warns you. A small pilot can become a large bill. Spendassay tracks metered spend as metadata and flags token anomalies and price drift as findings.

Every figure Spendassay publishes about metered pricing trap carries a proof level saying how much guessing sits behind it, and opens to show the rows it was computed from. The full method is on the methodology page.