AI spend under control

Asteron gives you a clear spend baseline, explains what drives the bill, and adds simple controls to prevent surprises. Starts from read-only exports.

Total AI Spend (30d)
$47,234
Δ vs prev
-12%
Cost per unit
$0.042
Top driver
GPT-4
Spend TrendLast 30 days
Spike +89%
Top Drivers
GPT-4 calls
API
$28.4K
Retries
Claude-3
Chat
$12.9K
Context+
Gemini
Search
$5.9K
Normal
Embeddings
ML
$2.1K
Stable
Controls
Budget cap
Allowlist
Approval required
Recent Alerts
Spike detected: GPT-4
2m ago • #eng-slack
Budget: 85% used
1h ago • #finance

What you see in Asteron

A practical control plane: ledger, drivers, policies, and evidence exports.

Spend Ledger

Spend Ledger

ProviderModelCost
OpenAIGPT-4$8,450
AnthropicClaude-3$6,230
GoogleGemini Pro$3,120

Finance-ready ledger with owners and tags.

Cost Drivers

Drivers and Spikes

Last 30 days
Spike
Normal
Spike
Retries (+40%)$4,200
Context growth$3,100

Explains what drives the bill.

Policies

Policies and Guardrails

Monthly cap: $50,000Active
Spike alert: +20% dailyActive
Approval: new modelsActive

Simple controls to prevent runaway spend.

Evidence Export

Evidence Pack Export

Spend baseline report
Cost drivers analysis
Policy recommendations

Audit-ready snapshots for Finance and Security.

What breaks first as AI scales

Bills become hard to explain

Finance asks for a breakdown. No clear mapping to owners or features.

Spikes arrive unnoticed

A retry loop doubles your bill overnight. No alerts until the invoice.

No rules, no ownership

Teams ship features with AI calls. No caps, no approval process.

Pilot: AI Spend Control Baseline Pack

In 10 business days, we deliver a spend baseline, drivers, and control blueprint from exports.

1
AI spend baseline (60–90 days)
Run-rate and breakdown by provider.
2
Spend ledger draft
What you pay for, with owners.
3
Top cost drivers (5–10)
What actually moves the bill.
4
Unit-cost view
Spend tied to your unit metric.
5
Controls blueprint
Caps, alerts, and exception workflow.
6
Tagging spec
Minimal tagging for reliable tracking.
7
Evidence templates
Ready-to-forward snapshots for reviews.
What we do NOT require
No production access

Exports only

No payload by default

Billing data is enough

No system changes

Analysis first

Security that passes scrutiny

Export-based by default

No write access to production. We analyze exports.

No payload by default

Billing and metadata only. No prompts or PII.

Minimal data, limited retention

Only what's needed for analysis.

Reduces vendor risk surface

Minimizes attack surface and compliance overhead.

Common questions

Frequently Asked Questions