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Cost Attribution & Budget Control

Attributes model spend to tenants, features and tasks, with budgets and alerting.

Description

Tags every call so spend can be attributed and controlled. Necessary because inference cost scales with usage while subscription revenue does not, so a heavy user can become individually unprofitable with nothing appearing wrong in aggregate.

When it fits

Multi-tenant products, and any deployment where usage is not proportional to revenue.

When it does not fit

Fixed-volume internal use with a predictable ceiling.

Governance requirement

Budget enforcement must degrade gracefully rather than failing hard. Cutting a tenant off mid-close because a monthly budget was exhausted is worse than the overspend.

Characteristic failure

Attribution by call count rather than token consumption, which understates document-heavy tenants by a wide margin.

Example

A tenant whose evidence-validation usage triples after adopting the feature, visible as cost per tenant per month before it appears on an aggregate bill.

AI solution components3
  • Token Accounting
  • Tenant Cost Rollup
  • Budget & Threshold Alerting
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