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AI cost attribution: tie every AI dollar to a user, team, model, and agent

AI cost attribution maps AI spend to the user, team, project, model, and agent that generated it. It gives finance the denominator that AI ROI has been missing.

Cost by project & agent · live LIVE
$18,420 spent today
top spenders shown · sample data, for illustration only
By project, today
Q4-Onboarding$6,240
Sales-Enablement$4,180
Support-Copilot$3,900
Internal-Tools$2,100
By agent, today
Onboarding-Assistant$3,920
Ticket-Triage-Agent$2,860
Lead-Qualifier$1,640

What is AI cost attribution?

AI cost attribution maps AI spend to the user, team, project, model, and agent that generated it. It correlates provider billing data with identity and usage signals you already have, so you can see how much a project or an agent is costing you in real time, by the hour or by the day, instead of one aggregated total with no visibility into where it’s going.

Without attribution
Monthly invoice
$184,620
Owner unknown
What you seeone aggregated total
How oftenonce, at month end

A single number with no owner. You can’t tell which project or agent is driving cost today, only what the whole org spent last month.

With AgentNuro
Today, by project
Q4-Onboarding34%Sales-Enablement23%Support-Copilot21%Internal-Tools12%
What you seecost per project, agent, model
How oftenlive, by the hour or day

See exactly which project or agent is costing you money, as it happens, not a month after the spend already occurred.

How do you attribute token spend to teams?

Every request already carries the signals attribution needs. AgentNuro resolves them into five dimensions, without any manual tagging step.

  1. 01
    User Every call carries a caller: a person, API key, or service account.
  2. 02
    Team / Department That caller is resolved to a team or department via your identity provider.
  3. 03
    Project Existing tags, budgets, or naming conventions map spend to a project, no re-entry.
  4. 04
    Model Token cost is priced per model and provider, at the rate actually billed.
  5. 05
    Agent For agentic workloads, spend rolls up to the agent or workflow that issued the call.

Why can't provider bills do this?

Every provider reports usage its own way: by project in OpenAI, by workspace in Anthropic, by label in Google Cloud. None of them knows your org chart, your agents, or what you spend with the other providers. So there's no single answer to "what is the Support team spending on AI this week?"

What a provider bill shows Usage and cost by its own project, key or workspace, for that provider only.
What that hides Which person, team or agent drove the cost, and the total across all your providers.
What AgentNuro adds One view across every provider, tied to users, teams, projects, models and agents.

Can you attribute shared API keys?

Yes. AgentNuro splits shared-key spend using request-level signals, the originating user, service, or workload, so multiple teams behind one key stop showing up as a single unresolved line.

Full detail in the FAQ below.
Shared API key
SalesSupportEngineering

What is unattributed AI spend?

Unattributed AI spend is AI cost that shows up on a provider bill but cannot yet be tied to the user, team, project, model, or agent that generated it, usually from shared keys, service accounts, or usage that predates attribution being turned on.

Before AgentNuro
22% of total AI spend with no owner
Illustrative sample data, shown for layout only.
After AgentNuro
4% remaining, mostly new usage still resolving
Illustrative sample data, shown for layout only.

What data sources feed cost attribution?

Billing and identity data give you spend by provider, project and team from day one, with no code changes. For per-user and per-agent detail, route calls through the AgentNuro gateway with a one-line endpoint change. It reads request metadata, not prompt content.

OpenAI OpenAIUsage & billing API
Claude Anthropic (Claude)Anthropic Console API
Gemini GeminiGoogle AI billing export
Copilot Copilot StudioMicrosoft 365 admin API
AWS Bedrock BedrockAWS Cost Explorer
Google Vertex VertexGCP billing export
Azure AI Foundry Azure AI FoundryAzure Cost Management
Identity providerSSO / directory, resolves user to team

Frequently asked questions

Spend rolls up to the agent or workflow that made each call, not just the person who started it. Every call carries an agent identifier. When one agent calls another in a multi-step chain, each agent's share is recorded, and the full chain is totaled for the workflow.

Not to get started. Connect your AI provider billing accounts and your identity provider, and you'll see spend by provider, project and team, with no code changes or tagging. For per-user and per-agent detail, route AI calls through the AgentNuro gateway, [a one-line endpoint change].

Your first AI spend map is ready within 24 hours of connecting provider's billing account. Attribution by user and agent starts immediately once AgentNuro Control Is connected.

OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Token-billed APIs are attributed call by call. Seat-based tools like Copilot are attributed by licensed user and their usage. AgentNuro Control supports more than 80 providers.

Every call is priced at the rate you're actually billed, including input, output, cached and reasoning tokens. Spend that can't be matched to an owner yet, usually from a new key or service account, shows up as unresolved. You can see it and assign it with a rule.

Yes. Attributed spend becomes line items by team, business unit or cost center. Share them as a showback report, or bill them back as chargeback.

See every AI dollar. Down to the agent that spent it.

Get your free AI spend map in minutes. No manual tagging, no code changes.