Token Cost Attribution by Team and Project
Real attribution requires tagging requests before they leave your system.
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9 stories in AI Spend Management.
Real attribution requires tagging requests before they leave your system.
Most AI spending vanishes into unmapped budgets and shared invoices.
Hidden fees and forgotten modifiers turn cheap APIs into thousand-dollar invoices.
DeepSeek's two tiers price differently by time and caching, upending flat-rate budget models.
How deployment type, billing mode, and output costs compound to inflate your actual invoice.
Teams face at least eight hidden pricing layers beyond the headline per-token rate.
Understand input versus output token costs to match the right tier to your actual workload.
Choosing the wrong OpenAI tier costs 25 times more than picking the cheapest one.
Real-time instrumentation catches LLM cost spikes before they hit your invoice.