---
title: AI Spend reports
canonical: "https://cloudmonitor.ai/docs/using-cloudmonitor/reports/ai-spend/"
description: "What your AI tools cost — by provider, by model and by application, with a month-end forecast and unit rates."
---

:::note[Not everyone has this]
**Tokenomics** is an optional module. If you can't see it in the menu, it isn't switched on for
your workspace — ask an admin to turn it on under Settings ▸ Workspace Settings ▸ Features.
:::

AI spend behaves unlike anything else on your bill. It's consumption-based with no capacity to
rightsize, the unit price changes when someone switches model, and a single badly-written prompt loop
can cost more than a server. It gets its own reports for that reason.

## Five views

| View | Answers |
|---|---|
| **AI Spend** | What are we spending, by provider — tokens, seats and compute together |
| **AI Spend by Model** | Which models, with the input/output mix and blended unit cost |
| **AI Spend by Application** | Which application, team and cost group the spend belongs to |
| **Token Spend & Forecast** | Where the month lands, against budget |
| **Cost per 1K / 1M Tokens** | The unit rate over time, and the cache-hit rate driving it |

## The number to watch

**Cost per 1K / 1M tokens** is the AI equivalent of unit economics. Total AI spend going up while
cost per million tokens goes down means you're getting more work done more efficiently — a good
month that looks like a bad one on the total alone.

Cache-hit rate is the biggest lever on that rate, which is why it sits on the same view.

## What's live and what isn't

:::tip[Provider coverage is uneven today]
Spend on AI services billed through your cloud provider is real. **GitHub Copilot usage is live**,
including per-model breakdown.

Token counts, cache-hit rates and blended cost per million for the *other* providers — Anthropic,
OpenAI, Cursor — are examples until those usage APIs are connected. Where a view has no feed it
says **Token telemetry not connected** rather than showing a plausible number.
:::

So: treat the **cost** figures as real and the fine-grained **token** metrics as directional unless
the screen tells you otherwise. Full detail on
[what isn't available yet](/docs/reference/whats-not-available-yet/).

## Filters

Period, provider, cost group and cost basis all apply — the AI vendors are billing providers like any
other, so the provider chip genuinely slices these views.

Virtual tags don't: token telemetry carries no resource tags, and the chip says so.

## Where the other AI screens are

This report is about **cost**. The adoption question — who's using which tool, and are the seats
worth it — is on
[AI tool adoption](/docs/using-cloudmonitor/reports/ai-adoption/), and the optimization suggestions
are on [TokenMaxing](/docs/using-cloudmonitor/reports/tokenmaxing/).