How to track OpenAI and Anthropic API costs by project
Build an AI cost review that separates provider billing from token estimates, assigns project ownership and measures cost per successful outcome.
Read the guideAn AI bill tells you what you paid; it does not automatically tell you whether the work was useful. Connect supported billing sources, inspect their available breakdowns and bring your application’s outcome measures into the cost discussion.
Explore your AI spend ↗Connect OpenAI, Anthropic or Cursor using the permissions required by that provider. Sources have different reporting granularity and update delays; keep those differences visible.
Compare the same periods and examine the model, project, workspace or member dimensions actually supplied by each integration. Do not assume every provider exposes every dimension.
Use the spend view to identify the area to investigate. Correlate it with your own task success, retries, model choices and deployments before making a change.
No. Retain the source and method of a cost. A calculation from usage and prices should not be presented as a reconciled invoice.
That requires a defined outcome and a matching denominator from your application. Do not assume billing integrations import those business measures automatically.
No. Capabilities depend on the provider. AI cost sources should not be represented as having AWS resource or security coverage.