The problem

If you run a website, AI crawlers are hitting it

constantly. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider, CCBot —

they scrape your content 24/7 for training data and

search indexing. You pay the bandwidth bill. They

get your content for free.

The frustrating part is most developers have no idea

how much of their server bill is pure bot waste until

they actually look at their logs.

What I built

BotCost.dev is a free browser-based log analyzer.

You drag and drop your server log file and it shows

you exactly:

Which AI bots are hitting your site

How many requests each one made

How much bandwidth each one consumed

Estimated monthly cost in dollars

A ready-to-paste Cloudflare WAF rule or Nginx config to block them

The privacy part

Everything runs in your browser. Your log file never

leaves your device. We have no server that receives

it.…