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FinOps

Spend guards.

Hard ceilings, soft warnings, and clean per-team chargeback for every dollar of AI spend. One invoice for finance; line-item attribution for every cost center.

Warn · Throttle · BlockPer-team budgetsChargeback-readyWarehouse sync
5 min
From request to chargeback ledger entry
$0.0001
Per-token cost resolution, all providers
3
Enforcement tiers: warn, throttle, block
1
Invoice across every model provider

"Why was our OpenAI bill
$340k this month?"

AI spend grows non-linearly with traffic. One badly-written agent loop, one new feature shipped on Friday, one experiment left running over the weekend — and finance is asking questions on Monday.

Spend guards put real budgets on AI traffic: hard caps that throttle before damage is done, soft warnings before they trip, and clean per-team chargeback so the cost lands on the right cost center.

Warn early. Throttle smart.
Block only when you mean it.

Warn

Soft thresholds

At 80% budget, Slack ping to the team owner. At 95%, page the on-call. No traffic impact — just human-in-the-loop signal so spend doesn't surprise anyone.

Throttle

RPM / TPM rate limits

Per-team and per-key limits on requests, tokens, and concurrency per minute. Catch runaway agent loops early — and protect your downstream provider quotas.

Block

Hard caps

Per-team, per-route, per-workspace ceilings. Once hit, requests return a structured 429 with a reset time. Service stays up; runaway loops stop.

Every dollar attributed.

Spend rolls up to cost centers automatically — using the same workspace + team headers your app already sends. Export to your finance system, or just hand finance the read-only dashboard.

November 2026 · projected
$84,210 / $120,000 budget
↓ 18% MoM
since enabling routing policies
platform-engineering $28,420 · OpenAI · Anthropic
ai-products $22,180 · Anthropic · Bedrock
data-science $18,490 · Anthropic · self-hosted
customer-support $9,210 · Mistral · GPT-5.4-mini
internal-tools $5,910 · gpt-4o-mini

data-science is at 92% of monthly budget — a Slack alert fired this morning. If they hit 100%, the hard cap returns a structured 429 with a reset time: service stays up, runaway loops stop.

Finance gets one invoice.
Your teams get attributed line items.

Spend rolls up by workspace, team, route, model, and any custom tag your app sends. Export CSV, or pull the same data via API into your finance system or warehouse.

CSV

Monthly export

Per-team breakdown matching your cost-center structure. Hand to finance, done.

API

Programmatic access

Read every request's cost, attributed team, and provider via REST. Build your own dashboards.

Warehouse

Warehouse sync

Spend metadata can be batch-synced hourly into your warehouse. Join with your existing finance dimensions.

See it on your spend.

A 30-minute walkthrough with a solutions engineer — bring your provider list and we'll map it live.