Dev-tool spend, out of the shadows.
Seats and usage for every developer tool your team buys, tracked with a daily signal.
- Read-only access
- 14-day free trial
- No credit card required
- 5 min
- setup, per provider
- 90 days
- available history
- Same-day
- anomaly alerts
Daily spend by provider
$24,321 total
See what is driving your spend.
Price the tools that have no billing API.
Claude Code, Cowork and Office agents emit OpenTelemetry usage straight to a StackSpend endpoint — nothing to install, no credentials stored. Usage is priced per model, user and session as a token-based estimate, and labelled as one.
How it worksEvery dollar has an owner.
Auto-tagging rules label costs as they are ingested, matching provider, account, service and project patterns in priority order. By the time someone asks who owns the spend, the answer is already on the data — filterable and groupable in the explorer.
Team plan and above
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 data viewWhy is this spend hard to control?
- Developer tools are adopted bottom-up; seats and usage grow across teams faster than budgets.
- Each tool bills separately, so total developer-tool spend is never visible together.
- Usage can jump from light to heavy (agentic edits, more Actions minutes) overnight.
Know what you are connecting.
The coverage
- StackSpend brings developer-tool spend into one view with per-user and per-team cost.
- Seat tracking surfaces inactive and duplicate seats to reclaim.
- Daily signals and anomaly detection flag seat and usage growth the day it happens.
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
- Cursor, GitHub (Actions, Copilot, Codespaces), Claude Code
- Per-user and per-team cost
- Active vs paid seats
- Daily signals and anomaly alerts
- 90 days of history
Who is this for?
- 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 native billing tools.
Native tools provide provider-specific reporting and controls. StackSpend adds a shared monitoring workflow across connected sources.
Cursor, GitHub, and tool billing pages
- Each tool billed and viewed separately
- No combined developer-tool total
- No active-vs-paid seat view in one place
- No alert when usage or seats spike
StackSpend
- One view of all developer-tool spend
- Per-user and per-team attribution
- Seat and usage anomaly alerts
- Daily signals before renewal surprises
What do you get when you connect?
- 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 DayDeveloper Tool Spend Management, answered
What causes Developer Tool Spend Management costs to spike?
- Cursor and Copilot seats grow across teams without a budget change
- Inactive seats stay paid after offboarding
- Actions minutes spike after a workflow change
- Total developer-tool spend is never seen in one place
What is StackSpend for Developer Tool Spend Management?
StackSpend manages developer-tool spend across Cursor, GitHub (Actions, Copilot, Codespaces), and Claude Code in one view. Track per-user and per-team cost, spot inactive seats and usage growth, and get daily signals and anomaly alerts — so developer-tool spend is managed, not discovered at renewal.
Why do engineering-led teams use StackSpend for developer tool spend management?
Engineering-led teams use StackSpend for developer tool spend management to catch cost problems the day they start — not three weeks later when the invoice lands. StackSpend brings developer-tool spend into one view with per-user and per-team cost. Seat tracking surfaces inactive and duplicate seats to reclaim.
Which providers does StackSpend support for developer tool spend management?
StackSpend supports developer tool spend management across cloud, data, AI, developer tooling, and communications providers including AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, Vercel, ClickHouse Cloud, OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude, Cursor, GitHub, Hugging Face, Grok (xAI), and Twilio. All providers appear in a single combined view.
How is StackSpend different from native billing dashboards for developer tool spend management?
Native dashboards require you to log in and investigate. StackSpend is a monitoring layer that delivers a daily cost signal to Slack or email, fires anomaly alerts the day a spike starts, and gives you pace-to-forecast so overruns are visible before month-end — without living in billing portals.
How long does developer tool spend management setup take?
Most teams connect their first provider in under 10 minutes with read-only credentials. The setup guide at /resources/guides/providers/cursor walks through the exact steps. 90 days of history is backfilled automatically on connect.
Can I get alerts when developer tool spend management costs spike?
Yes. StackSpend uses anomaly detection to compare daily spend to your historical baseline per provider and service. Alerts are delivered via Slack, email, or webhook so you can respond the same day — not at invoice time.
For the current provider catalogue, see supported integrations.
Tomorrow morning: one number, in Slack.
Connect your providers today and follow spend, budgets and alerts in one place. Review provider permissions before connecting.