BasetenBaseten spend, in real billed dollars.
Model APIs, dedicated deployments, and training on one daily timeline — with budgets and same-day spike alerts.
- Read-only access
- 14-day free trial
- No credit card required
- 5 min
- setup, per provider
- 90 days
- available history
- Same-day
- anomaly alerts
See what is driving Baseten spend.
Every model you run, in one lens.
Usage by base model, project and user, in tokens and in API-equivalent value. Estimated and billed usage stay separate, so the numbers never double-count and never pretend to be your invoice.
Business plan
How it worksBaseten · token mixIllustrative example
1,000,000 tokens
- Primary model550,000
- Smaller model300,000
- Other models150,000
600k input · 250k cached input · 150k output. API value is an estimate, not your invoice.
Catch the spike the day it starts.
StackSpend learns what normal looks like per provider, account and service, then flags the day something breaks pattern, with a severity and an owner. Each one carries a lifecycle, so it gets closed.
How it worksOne message each morning. Nobody opens a billing portal.
Team plan and above
How it worksProduct examples are illustrative. Usage estimates and provider-reported costs are separate measures; availability varies by connected source.
Explore the model viewWhy is Baseten spend hard to control?
- Baseten bills dedicated deployments by the compute minute and Model APIs by the token, so a deployment left running or a batch job hitting a serverless model changes the daily number well before the invoice does.
- Spend is split across three product lines — Model APIs, dedicated inference, and training — and reconciling them to a single daily figure means reading the billing dashboard by hand.
- Baseten sits as a separate billing silo from OpenAI and Anthropic, so teams running open models there have no single view of total AI spend.
Know what you are connecting.
The coverage
- StackSpend reads the Baseten billing usage summary with an API key and normalises all three product lines into one daily cost timeline.
- Per-model dollars come straight from Baseten, not from list-price estimation, because the API reports cost and the token split on the same rows — including cached input tokens.
- Dedicated deployments break down by instance type and environment, and training by job, so a cost change points at the resource that caused it.
- Unified with OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and the rest of your stack, with anomaly detection, budgets, and pace-to-forecast before the billing cycle closes.
The source
Billing and usage from your connected providers. Credential types and permission controls vary by provider.
Provider connection guidesThe limits
Provider reporting and scheduled sync determine freshness. Available history and attribution vary by source; review the setup guide for coverage. Alerts notify your team; they do not block requests or enforce a spending cap.
What we track
- Billing usage summary API
- Daily billed cost
- Tokens by model
- Dedicated compute minutes
- Training job spend
- Budget thresholds
- Unified with other AI providers
Who should use StackSpend for Baseten?
- Teams that want daily visibility into spend without manually checking billing portals.
- Buyers replacing spreadsheets and fragmented native dashboards with one monitoring workflow.
- Operators who need read-only setup, alerts, and forecasting before overrun becomes month-end reality.
Evaluation checklist
- 01
Start a trial
Open a StackSpend workspace with no credit card required.
- 02
Connect with read-only access
Use the setup guide to connect the provider or workflow with the minimum permissions needed.
- 03
Review the first 90 days
Check history, alerts, anomalies, and forecast so you can decide whether the workflow is worth adopting.
StackSpend alongside Baseten billing dashboard.
Native tools provide provider-specific reporting and controls. StackSpend adds a shared monitoring workflow across connected sources.
Baseten billing dashboard
- Usage is visible only when someone opens the dashboard — there is no daily signal
- The three product lines are reported separately, with no single normalised timeline
- No unified view with OpenAI or Anthropic — Baseten sits as a separate silo
- Budget alerts are Baseten-only, so they cannot see spend across the rest of your stack
StackSpend
- Daily billed cost across Model APIs, dedicated inference, and training in one view
- Real per-model dollars with the input, output, and cached token split
- Unified with every other AI provider — total AI spend in one view
- Budgets, anomaly detection, and pace-to-forecast before the invoice arrives
What do you get when you connect Baseten?
- Setup time
- Most teams can connect and validate setup in about 5-10 minutes.
- Access model
- Read-only credentials only. StackSpend does not modify provider resources or billing settings.
- Signals
- Daily Slack or email updates, anomaly alerts, and budget tracking in one workflow.
- History and forecast
- Historical spend context plus pace-to-forecast so overruns are visible before month-end.
Check the details before connecting.
Review connection permissions
Read the provider setup guides before sharing credentials.
Provider setup guidesSee the security details
How credentials, tenant isolation and data handling work.
Security and data handlingTalk to the team
Ask about your stack or requirements before connecting.
Contact StackSpendAbout Andrew DayBaseten Cost Monitoring, answered
What causes Baseten costs to spike?
- A dedicated deployment stays warm after the work it was scaled for has finished
- A batch job hits a Model APIs endpoint and token spend climbs before anyone checks
- A training run costs more than expected and is only noticed at the end of the month
- Baseten spend grows silently alongside OpenAI as teams move workloads to open models
What is StackSpend for Baseten Cost Monitoring?
StackSpend tracks Baseten spend via the management API billing usage summary: daily billed cost across Model APIs, dedicated deployments, and training jobs, with the input, output, and cached token split reported on the same rows. Because Baseten reports cost and tokens together, per-model dollars are your actual billed amounts rather than list-price estimates. You get daily cost visibility, anomaly detection, budgets, and a unified view alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and the rest of your stack.
Why do engineering-led teams use StackSpend for baseten cost monitoring?
Engineering-led teams use StackSpend for baseten cost monitoring to catch cost problems the day they start — not three weeks later when the invoice lands. StackSpend reads the Baseten billing usage summary with an API key and normalises all three product lines into one daily cost timeline. Per-model dollars come straight from Baseten, not from list-price estimation, because the API reports cost and the token split on the same rows — including cached input tokens.
What Baseten Cost Monitoring data does StackSpend track?
StackSpend tracks: Billing usage summary API, Daily billed cost, Tokens by model, Dedicated compute minutes, Training job spend, Budget thresholds, Unified with other AI providers. All data is pulled using read-only credentials — StackSpend never modifies your account or provider settings.
How do I connect Baseten Cost Monitoring to StackSpend?
Connection takes around 5–10 minutes. You grant read-only access and StackSpend handles the rest. The step-by-step setup guide is at /resources/guides/providers/baseten.
How is StackSpend different from Baseten Cost Monitoring's native billing dashboard?
Baseten Cost Monitoring's native billing dashboard is useful for investigation but requires you to log in to look. StackSpend delivers a daily cost signal to Slack or email, fires anomaly alerts the day a spike starts, and surfaces pace-to-forecast so overruns are visible before month-end.
Does StackSpend support multiple Baseten Cost Monitoring accounts?
Yes. StackSpend supports connecting multiple Baseten Cost Monitoring accounts or workspaces to the same organisation. All accounts roll up into a single combined view alongside your other providers.
For the current provider catalogue, see supported integrations.
Tomorrow morning: your Baseten number, in Slack.
Connect Baseten today and follow spend, budgets and alerts in one place. Review provider permissions before connecting.