Laravel AI Middleware: Token Tracking & Rate Limiting
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Integrating Claude or GPT-4o into a Laravel app is deceptively easy. One Http::post() and you feel like a genius. Then a single user loops your endpoint, or a bot scripts it, and your OpenAI bill climbs $300 before you wake up. The answer is a dedicated Laravel AI middleware layer, and most tutorials skip it entirely. That’s not a hypothetical. It happens. The fix isn’t smarter prompts, it’s infrastructure. In this guide, we build a proper AI management layer: tiered rate limiting, per-user to