for orgs on Claude Code & Codex, billed by API

Your agent bill
is one line long.

No owner, no reason, no line items. We take that bill apart, cut 20–30% of it with policies that apply automatically, and charge a share of what is verifiably saved. Developers change nothing.

anthropic · api usageaugust 2026
API usage · 412 developers$104,318.00
total due$104,318
what you paid for nothing?

01 — the same month, itemised

Here is what that one line was made of.

Uber cut cost per session 52% while usage grew 7× by fixing patterns like these — with a 30-engineer platform team. Every marked line below is a detector in our measurement engine, not an opinion.

$100,000
what is being paid forwhere it happensrecovered / mo
Subagents on a frontier model
file searches, greps, summaries — routed to the most expensive model available
policy: subagent_model_map
$6,140
Cache rebuilt after every pause
a 10-minute break expires the prompt cache; the next request re-pays full price for it
policy: cache_ttl_interactive = 1h
$4,220
50K tokens before the first word
MCP tool schemas preloaded into every session and re-billed on every turn
policy: tool search
$3,010
Context that never gets smaller
one 40KB tool response you keep paying for on every following turn of the session
policy: compaction cap
$2,480
recovered by policy
measured per request, against the same model mix — price swings cannot fake it
$28,400

Modelled from published waste rates at the spend you set above. Your real numbers come from your own traffic in the first week.

Get these four lines for your own month

02 — how it works

Connect once. Save every request.

01

Connect

decost login points Claude Code and Codex at your gateway, deployed in your VPC. One command per developer. Nothing else about their day changes.

02

Baseline

Unit costs reconstructed from your provider's billing data and your developers' own session logs. No 30-day waiting period before the work starts.

03

Optimize

Policies go live at the gateway: cheaper models for subagents, cache that survives a coffee break, tool schemas that stay out of context, hard budget caps per team.

04

Verify

Same metrics, same model mix, real dollars. You sign off on the delta.Our fee is a share of it.

03 — beyond the savings

The gateway that cuts the bill is also the control plane.

The parts a lower invoice does not show, and the reason clients keep the layer after the success fee sunsets.

Budgets that actually stop spend

Per-developer and per-team caps, calendar-aligned. Hard mode pauses requests at the limit; soft mode alerts. Either way the invoice stops surprising you.

hard caps · soft alerts

Every dollar has a name on it

Virtual keys replace the shared org key: spend attributes to developer, team, session, subagent — and to the repository the work happened in.

virtual keys · instant revoke

“How do we operate AI?” — answered

A live dashboard and a weekly report: cost per session, cache hit rate, model mix, why spend changed. The same numbers that back the invoice.

dashboard · weekly report

Your data, your tooling

The spend log is a plain NDJSON file in your VPC, with a FOCUS export for your FinOps stack. Leave whenever you like; the record stays yours.

NDJSON · FOCUS export

04 — trust

Built to be argued with.

We invoice from these numbers, so they have to survive your finance team reading them line by line.

Your VPC, your data

A single static Go binary in your network, zero dependencies, ~86µs added per request. Request content is never logged.

Fail-open by design

If our layer degrades, traffic passes through untouched. We lose measurement — you never lose work.

The invoice is auditable

Savings are per-request counterfactuals that under-claim, never inflate, measured at a fixed model mix.

05 — pricing

No savings — no fee.

$100,000/mo→ saved$28,400→ you keep$21,300

Pilot from $10K, credited back if we miss the savings threshold. Platform fee from $2K/mo. The success fee is a capped share of verified savings and sunsets into a flat annual contract — we are not a tax on your traffic.

06 — start here

Find out what you are overpaying for.

A read-only pass over your provider billing data. A report in days: where the waste is, what it is worth per year, and which policy stops each piece of it.

Read-only key, 30 minutes of your platform lead's time, no commitment. We reply with the report, not with a sequence.