Find the AI spend nobody approved.
Unmanaged tools, team credit cards, and rogue API keys — surfaced, attributed, and governed.
- 5 min
- setup, per provider
- 90 days
- history, instantly
- Same-day
- anomaly alerts
- Read-only access
- 14-day free trial
- No credit card required
Daily Spend by Provider
$24,321 total
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.
How does it work in practice?
- 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.
What makes this work?
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 worksSee this running against your own bill by tomorrow morning.
Read-only · 5 minutes per provider
Who uses this?
- 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.
What does StackSpend track?
- AI spend across providers and keys
- Attribution by team and tool
- Budgets and anomaly alerts
- Daily signals
- 90 days of history
When does this use case fire?
- 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
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.
How does StackSpend do this?
Scattered invoices and expense reports is built for different jobs. Here is what StackSpend adds.
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
Native tools show you last month. StackSpend tells you tomorrow.
Shadow AI Spend starts from day one — no manual setup and no threshold tuning required.
Read-only access · Flat plans, never a % of your bill · No credit card required
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.
Shadow AI Spend, answered
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.
Tomorrow morning: one number, in Slack.
Connect read-only today. Shadow AI Spend starts from day one — no manual setup, no threshold tuning required.