anomaly detected · october
Your Vercel bill is lying.
Seven cost categories, each with its own overage math, each changing every release. The dashboard shows totals. It doesn't show which feature quadrupled your Image Optimization line, or which forgotten cron is firing every minute. We do.
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october · my-saas-app
18 days remaining
current spend
$9,457.26
+347%vs 90-day baseline of $2,108
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Image Optimization at $4,127 is 42% of spend. Root cause: unresolvable next/image dimensions on /blog/[slug] routes. Estimated fix: 2 hours. Estimated recovery: $2,476/mo.
illustrative · data in your analyzer stays private
pipeline
Three steps between you and a smaller bill.
step 01
Connect
Drop last month's Vercel billing CSV, or read-only-OAuth the API once. Your data stays yours — analysis is per-project, never pooled.
step 02
Scan
We check every line against 9 heuristics tuned for Vercel: Image Optimization anomalies, oversized function memory, uncached bandwidth, runaway cron schedules, AI Gateway provider mix.
step 03
Act
Each finding comes with the fix: config diff, vercel.json snippet, or the specific route to investigate. Typical teams cut 20–40% of spend in the first week.
objections · q&a
Skeptic's corner.
- Does this need full access to my Vercel account?
- No. The free analyzer runs entirely client-side on the CSV export you download yourself. The full product uses a read-only Vercel API token scoped to billing + usage — no deploy or project-write permissions.
- What counts as an anomaly?
- A cost category that deviates meaningfully from its 90-day baseline (e.g., Image Optimization jumps 3x week-over-week), plus any line item that violates a well-known Vercel cost antipattern — uncached image endpoints, oversized function memory, per-minute crons firing on static work.
- Is Vercel going to ship this themselves?
- Possible but not imminent — their 2026 roadmap prioritizes Fluid Compute, AI Gateway, and Vercel Agent. Cost-optimization cuts into their revenue, so incentive alignment is weak. We have a 12–18 month window; after that, our edge is depth + neutrality (we recommend leaving Vercel for specific workloads when it actually saves money).
- What does it cost?
- Free tier: one analyzer run per week, top 2 findings. $29/mo: unlimited runs, full recommendations, CSV export for your finance team. $79/mo: multi-project, Slack alerts, 90-day baselines.
- Who built this?
- A small anonymous team running production Next.js apps on Vercel. We got hit by a $4k surprise bill. We fixed it. Then we automated the fix.
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