Use cases / AI product teams

Understand the bill behind your AI product.

Read authoritative cost and supplied usage context without rebuilding an invoice from token counts or merging direct and marketplace charges.

Begin with who billed the work.

Direct OpenAI and Anthropic organization reports are different from AI charges on a cloud or marketplace bill. Keep cost attached to its actual billing source.

Use reported cost for the financial answer

Compare compatible periods in the same currency and cost basis. Usage quantities can explain demand, but reference prices do not turn those quantities into invoiced cost.

Follow the attribution supplied

Review project, workspace or model detail only where the report supplies it with usable coverage. A total organization charge is not automatically a per-model or per-product allocation.

Ask the ownership question

Use Allocation to discuss direct, shared and unallocated cost, and Budgets and forecasts to review the financial plan with its uncertainty.