I got an email today warning me that my $50 monthly budget for Open Radar was hit -- only 6 days into the month! On the billing page, I found $83 of charges already.

Digging further, a details page showed most of this occurred in the last day.

Logs showed thousands of errors that could be traced to just a few IP addresses. Here's a list with the top two IP addresses making around 30k requests each.

The really dumb thing is that the OpenAI bot was just probing with random ids, hence the many failures

Here's a look at how OpenAI cost me $80 today with its dumb scraping (and disregard for my robots.txt file)

Hi, we're going offline briefly after a big cost spike thanks to our friends at Anthropic and OpenAI.

Now on Bluesky!