Telemetry for AI Teams

Turns your AI expenses into
actionable business insights.

Intelligence Summary

"Your AI gross margins have improved by 18.4% this month. However, a significant efficiency gap remains in your 'Customer Support' pipeline."

Key Findings

AUDIT_01high

GPT-4o usage for 'Customer Support' is 42% more expensive than similar tasks on Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

AUDIT_02medium

Recursive embedding calls in 'Search Indexer' are causing a 15% cost spike every Sunday at 2 AM.

AUDIT_03low

Latency for 'Image Generation' has increased by 250ms following the latest provider update.

Recommended Actions

1

Switch 'General Chat' feature to Llama 3.1 70B to save $1,200/mo without losing quality.

2

Implement request batching for the 'Translation Service' to reduce API overhead by 12%.

3

Enable prompt caching for 'Code Analysis' to save approximately 4.2M input tokens daily.

4

Migrate 'Vector Search' to DeepSeek-V3 for a 60% reduction in inference costs.

5

Optimize system prompt for 'Data Extraction' to reduce input token overhead by 18%.

Projected Monthly Savings+$4,150.00
Deep Observability

Inspect every single request.

Don't let your AI be a black box. Track full prompts, responses, and provider metadata with a beautiful, developer-first interface.

Live Activity
FeatureModelProviderTokensLatencyCostUserLoggedView
customer-supportgpt-4oopenai1.7k(1250+450)1450ms$0.008250user_2vXk...Jul 28, 03:27 AM
search-indexerclaude-3-5-sonnetanthropic5.4k(4200+1200)2800ms$0.0210systemJul 28, 02:27 AM
cover-letter-gengpt-4o-miniopenai1.4k(850+600)1200ms$0.000210user_9mLa...Jul 28, 01:27 AM
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Includes full support for Reasoning Content,Prompt Caching, and Multi-modal responses.

Pricing Accuracy

Official Provider Support

acost tracks real-time pricing from the world's leading AI providers. Get 100% accurate financial visibility for:

OpenAI

OpenAI

Anthropic

Anthropic

Google

Google

OpenRouter

OpenRouter

xAI

xAI (Grok)

DeepSeek

DeepSeek

Qwen

Qwen

Minimax

Minimax

AI Profitability Intelligence

Stop guessing your margins. acost gives you the granular data you need to optimize your AI costs and improve unit economics.

Granular Telemetry

Track provider, model, input/output tokens, cost, and latency for every single request in real-time.

Feature Tracking

Connect AI costs directly to your product features. Know which parts of your app are profitable and which aren't.

Cost Analysis

Beautifully visualized cost breakdowns by model, provider, and feature tag. Identify spend anomalies instantly.

Simple Integration

Generate a workspace key and send telemetry via a simple REST API. No complex setup or proxying required.

Non-Blocking

Send telemetry asynchronously from your backend. Your AI responses stay fast, even if the analytics call fails.

Usage Trends

Monitor growth trends and cost spikes over time. Get ahead of your AI bill before it becomes a problem.

Connect in 3 minutes

acost was built to be invisible to your users and painless for your developers.

01

Get Your API Key

Create a secure workspace key in seconds and add it to your server's environment variables.

02

Send Telemetry

After your AI response finishes, send the metadata to our ingest endpoint via a simple, non-blocking POST request.

03

Optimize & Save

Get instant visibility into costs, token usage, and margins. Use AI-driven insights to cut spend immediately.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

acost is an AI Cost Intelligence platform. It provides a lightweight API to track every request your app makes to LLM providers. We turn raw telemetry into actionable insights, helping you understand which features, users, and models are driving your AI spend.
We officially support real-time pricing for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (Gemini), OpenRouter, xAI (Grok), DeepSeek, Qwen, and Xiaomi (MiMo). You can view the full list of supported models and their current market rates on our Supported Providers page.

acost acts as a lightweight observer. The flow is designed to be non-blocking and highly accurate:

1

Observation

After your AI call finishes, you send the model ID and token counts to our /track endpoint.

2

Matching

Our engine matches your request against our global database (synced daily from PriceToken or OpenRouter).

3

Calculation

We apply the following formula to determine the exact USD cost:

(Input Tokens × Rate) + (Output Tokens × Rate) = Total Cost

Dual-Source Intelligence

  • Standard: Uses official provider rates via PriceToken.ai.
  • OpenRouter: Automatically uses market rates if provider: "openrouter" is detected.

Yes, acost is provider-agnostic. However, there are pros and cons to using unlisted vendors:

Pro

Total flexibility. Track local models (Ollama), custom wrappers, or internal proxy layers.

Cons

Requires manual calculation. You must send an estimatedCost in your payload for accurate accounting.

We do not store your provider API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) on our servers.

For features like the AI Playground where you Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), we apply industry-standard AES-256 encryption. Your keys are only used to facilitate the request and are never persisted in plain text.

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