See what Vercel is costing you, on your iPhone

1. The mobile dashboard (free, official, already works)#

vercel.com in mobile Safari → Usage. It is responsive, it shows the per-project breakdown, and it costs nothing.

Good enough if you check occasionally and nothing depends on catching a problem fast.

Worth doing right now: add it to your home screen. Share → Add to Home Screen. It removes the "log in on a phone keyboard" friction that stops people checking.

What it misses: it is pull, not push. It only helps if you remember to look, and the moments that matter are the ones where you are not thinking about it.

2. An iOS Shortcut against the billing API#

Since February 2026 Vercel has a billing API, which means you can build this yourself:

1. Create a Vercel token (scoped as tightly as you can).
2. New Shortcut → Get Contents of URL → the billing charges endpoint, with an Authorization: Bearer header.
3. Parse the JSON, show the number.
4. Put it on your home screen or in a widget.

Good: free, fast, exactly the number you care about.

Caveats: the token lives on your device in Shortcuts, which is less protected than the Keychain. And it is still pull — a widget you have to look at.

3. A native app#

No official Vercel app exists. The third-party field is covered separately, and splits sharply:

• Most apps show deploy status, not spend. Rev, Iris, Verdash, BuildDeck.
• A couple show stats. Vero.
• One tracks spend and can act on it. MONII, which is ours.

The thing all three have in common#

They are all checking. And checking only helps if you happen to check at the right moment.

In every documented bill-shock case, the owner could have seen it in the dashboard at any point. They did not, because nothing told them to look. That is not carelessness — nobody refreshes a usage graph at 3am on a Tuesday for no reason.

The useful capability is not a better way to look. It is being told. Which is Vercel's spend alerts if you are on Pro, a cron you build, or a push notification.

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