Find the AI spend nobody approved.
Unmanaged tools, team credit cards, and rogue API keys — surfaced, attributed, and governed.
- 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 the workflow in practice.
Every provider, every account, one number.
Connect every account separately and StackSpend does the aggregation you do by hand today: one figure for the estate, broken down by provider, account, service and project. Ask what the company spent yesterday and answer it without opening a console.
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 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?
- AI spend often starts with a team credit card, a developer API key, or a tool trial — invisible to finance.
- Tool and provider sprawl means no one knows the total AI bill.
- Unmanaged AI usage is both a cost and a governance risk.
Know what you are connecting.
The workflow
- 01
StackSpend consolidates AI providers and keys into one view to surface scattered spend.
- 02
Attribution shows which teams and tools are driving it.
- 03
Budgets and anomaly alerts bring shadow spend under governance.
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
- AI spend across providers and keys
- Attribution by team and tool
- Budgets and anomaly alerts
- Daily signals
- 90 days of history
Who is this for?
- Product and engineering teams that need model-level visibility before AI bills surprise them.
- Buyers consolidating OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude, Cursor, or open-model spend into one operating view.
- Teams that need alerts and forecasting, not just retrospective usage dashboards.
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.
How does StackSpend support this workflow?
Native tools provide provider-specific reporting and controls. StackSpend adds a shared monitoring workflow across connected sources.
Scattered invoices and expense reports
- No single view of AI spend
- Credit-card and key spend invisible
- No attribution to teams or tools
- No governance or alerts
StackSpend
- Consolidated view across providers and keys
- Attribution by team and tool
- Budgets and anomaly alerts
- Shadow spend brought under governance
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.
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When is this workflow useful?
- A team buys an AI tool on a credit card outside finance
- Multiple API keys exist with no central owner
- Tool trials convert to paid and scale unnoticed
- No one can state the total AI bill
How does StackSpend handle Shadow AI Spend?
Shadow AI spend is AI cost incurred outside any central view — via team credit cards, individual API keys, and tool trials. StackSpend turns scattered AI usage into visible, governed spend by consolidating providers into one view with attribution, budgets, and anomaly alerts, so finance and engineering can see and control it.
What is shadow AI spend?
Shadow AI spend is AI cost incurred outside any central view — through team credit cards, individual API keys, and tool trials — so finance and leadership cannot see the true total AI bill.
How do you find shadow AI spend?
StackSpend consolidates AI providers and keys into one view and attributes spend to teams and tools, surfacing usage that was previously scattered and unmanaged.
Why is shadow AI spend a risk?
It is both a cost problem (no budget or owner) and a governance problem (no policy or oversight). Bringing it into one view turns it into visible, governed spend.
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.