llm cost attribution for ai startups

Your LLM bill is a black box.

SpendOps AI shows you what every feature, team, and customer costs across OpenAI and Anthropic - with Slack alerts before budgets blow and a monthly PDF your CFO actually reads. Read-only keys. No code changes. First chart in 10 minutes.

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01 / The problem

You can answer "how much." You can't answer "on what."

The AI line is up again this month. What's actually driving it? - your CFO, at every month-end

Provider dashboards stop at totals and per-model spend. The questions that decide pricing and margins - which feature, which customer, which team - stay guesswork until the invoice lands.

No real breakdown Spend by model - never by feature, customer, or team.
Spreadsheet month-ends Finance reports rebuilt by hand, every single month.
Surprise invoices Spikes discovered when the bill arrives, not when they happen.
02 / What you get

Four things. Each one ends a monthly headache.

Know what every feature and customer costs Tag rules map your API keys to features, teams, and customers - so "the OpenAI bill" becomes "chat costs 4× what search does." No SDK, no code changes.
Catch spikes in Slack, not on the invoice Daily anomaly detection plus budget alerts at 80% and 100% of your limits - in Slack and email. A month-end forecast shows where you'll land.
A monthly report your CFO forwards A board-ready PDF on the 1st of every month - spend by feature, team, and customer, month-over-month, anomalies, savings. Emailed automatically.
Cut spend with receipts, not vibes Model swaps, prompt caching, batch processing - each recommendation with an estimated $/month from your actual usage.
Who it's for

Built for CTOs and founders at AI-native startups spending $5K–$80K/month on LLM APIs. If your CFO asks where the AI spend goes, this is for you.

03 / How it works

From signup to your first chart in 10 minutes.

1
Connect a read-only Admin key OpenAI or Anthropic. Encrypted on arrival, never shown again - your traffic never touches us.
2
See 30 days of history, instantly We backfill 30 days of cost data in minutes - numbers match your provider dashboard.
3
Attribute spend with rules, not code Point-and-click rules match key names to features, teams, and customers. Every dollar gets an owner.
4
Set budgets and relax Limits per feature, customer, or provider - alerts, daily digest, and the CFO PDF run on autopilot.
04 / Roadmap

What ships at launch - and what's coming.

Everything under "at launch" is built and working today. The rest is sequenced - your votes decide the order.

At launchbuilt & working
Per-feature & per-team attribution OpenAI + Anthropic in one view Cost Explorer with CSV export Daily anomaly alerts → Slack & email Budgets with 80% / 100% alerts Savings recommendations with $ estimates Monthly CFO PDF report Month-end spend forecast
Plannedprioritized by your votes
Lightweight SDK for per-request, per-customer attribution Gross margin per customer - cost joined with your MRR Gemini cost ingestion Azure OpenAI & Bedrock Hard budget caps - auto-pause keys at the limit SSO & SOC 2 for enterprise

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05 / Questions

Common questions.

When are you launching?

Early access opens in roughly four weeks. Waitlist members get in first - about two weeks before public launch.

Do I need to install an SDK or change my code?

No. SpendOps pulls aggregate cost and usage data from your providers' Admin APIs on a schedule. No SDK, no proxy, no code changes, and zero added latency - we're never in your request path, so an outage on our side can't touch your product.

What happens to my API key? Can you see our prompts?

You connect a read-only Admin key - not your production key. It's encrypted with AES-256 before it's stored, never returned to a browser, and never logged. The Admin APIs return token counts and dollar amounts, not content: we never see prompts, completions, or your users' data. Revoke the key at any time. SOC 2 is on our roadmap as we move upmarket.

Can it stop runaway spend, or just report it?

At launch: alerts at 80% and 100% of every budget you set, in Slack and email the same day - so a runaway loop costs you hours, not a month. Hard caps that auto-pause a key at its limit are on the roadmap.

Which providers do you support?

OpenAI and Anthropic at launch, normalized to USD in one view. Gemini cost ingestion is next on the roadmap, with Azure OpenAI and Bedrock to follow. Tell us your stack in the form above and we'll prioritize it.

What will it cost?

Plans start at $299/month, and every plan includes everything - attribution, anomaly alerts, budgets, Slack, and the monthly CFO report. Tiers scale with the spend we track for you. There's a 14-day free trial with no credit card, and waitlist members get founding-member perks at launch.

How is this different from Helicone, Langfuse, or Vantage?

Observability tools like Helicone and Langfuse are built for engineers debugging prompts and traces. Cloud-cost platforms like Vantage are built and priced for enterprises. SpendOps is finance-first at startup pricing: per-feature and per-customer dollar attribution, budgets, and a board-ready monthly report - the answers your CFO actually asks for.

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