AI Cost Governance
Turn an Unallocatable AI Invoice Into a Chargeback Model
Per-turn token counts priced by model, rolled up per developer, per team, and per repository, with budget thresholds that fire before the invoice does.
The Situation
AI Became a Line Item Before It Had an Owner
AI spend grew from an experiment to a recurring cost without ever acquiring the structure that other infrastructure has: no tags, no cost centers, no per-team allocation.
Finance asks a reasonable question - what are we paying for AI, and who is spending it - and engineering has to answer from provider dashboards that know nothing about teams.
What Goes Wrong Today
Provider Dashboards Are Not Cost Management
- Org-level totals. Provider invoices do not break down by team, repository, or developer.
- Multiple providers. Spend is split across several vendors with incompatible reporting.
- No leading indicator. The first signal that spend doubled is the invoice, 30 days late.
- No model attribution. Nobody can tell an expensive workflow from an unnecessarily expensive model choice.
What Kraitos AIDR Does
Cost From the Same Telemetry as Everything Else
- Per-turn input, output, cache read, and cache write token counts captured at the endpoint
- Model-aware pricing across model families - Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, GPT-4 class, and others
- Rollups per developer, per team, per model, and per repository with 30-day trends
- Budget and usage threshold policies that alert while spend is still accruing
- Chargeback-ready CSV exports for finance
- Adoption metrics alongside cost, so a spend increase can be read against usage
What You End Up With
A Defensible AI Budget
- What did each team spend on AI last month, and on which models?
- Which developers are near their token threshold this week?
- Did the increase come from more usage, or from a more expensive model?
- Can finance allocate AI cost the same way it allocates cloud cost?
See Kraitos AIDR in Action
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