Free-Plan Margin Guard
A guardrail that tracks costly free-plan usage against the founder's configured unit-cost rules and warns when free users are burning paid infrastructure.
- Target market
- Indie devs and small SaaS teams of 1-10 with free plans that consume API calls, model tokens, exports, storage, email, scraping, or background jobs.
Problem snapshot
What this solves
A free user uploads huge files, runs AI jobs, or calls an API every night, and the founder only notices when the provider bill arrives. The app knows the usage, Stripe knows the user is free, and the infrastructure bill knows the cost, but nobody joins those facts into a margin warning. A free plan can be a growth channel or a slow leak depending on a few…
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