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Usage & spend

See what your agents cost month by month — totals, the costliest runs, and breakdowns by hierarchy, owner, user and model — and set a monthly budget.

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Usage & spend shows where your AI spend goes. For any month you get the total, how it compares with the month before, the day-by-day trend, the runs that cost the most, and four ways to break the figure down. Every number is a sum of costs recorded at the moment each run happened.

What this screen is for

Spend in AgenticObjects is attributed to someone responsible, never left floating. A question asked in chat is charged to the person who asked it. A run started by hand is charged to the person who started it. A scheduled run is charged to the agent itself, as its own cost centre — never to whoever wrote the schedule. This screen adds those records up so you can answer the questions that matter: how much did we spend, where did it go, and who or what drove it.

The workspace and project you choose at the top of the left menu narrow everything on this page to that part of your company.

What you see

  1. Usage & spend — the page title, with the month being shown beside the subtitle.
  2. Period navigator — ← and → step one month back or forward, a month picker with Filter jumps to any month, and This month and Last month are one-click shortcuts.
  3. Summary band:
    • Period total — everything spent in the month.
    • vs previous month — the change in percent, with an up or down arrow and last month's total beneath it.
    • A daily trend — one bar per day, scaled to the month's busiest day. Hover a bar to see the date and amount.
    • Costliest runs this period — the five most expensive runs, each with its cost, agent and status, and a Run detail → link when you can open runs.
  4. Four tabs:
    • Hierarchy — one row per agent with its Project, Workspace, Agent, Runs, Cost (USD), tokens in, out and cached, and an Experiment column showing how much of the cost came from experiment runs.
    • By owner — spend grouped by each agent's owner.
    • By user — spend from chat and hand-started runs, grouped by person and trigger type, with the attribution rules written above the table.
    • By model — spend grouped by the AI model that served the runs.
  5. Monthly soft budgets — your budgets, each with its monthly amount and, for the company budget, spent / threshold (this month).
  6. A closing note explaining that every cost was frozen at run time.

How to …

Look at another month

  1. Press ← or → to step month by month, or pick a month and press Filter.
  2. Press This month or Last month to jump straight there.
  3. Every figure, tab and the comparison update to the month you chose.

Find out what drove a jump

  1. Read vs previous month in the summary band to see how big the change is.
  2. Scan the daily trend for the day the spend rose.
  3. Check Costliest runs this period and open a Run detail → to see every step that run took.
  4. Switch to By model or By user to see whether one model or one person accounts for most of it.

Set a company budget

  1. Under Monthly soft budgets, enter a monthly amount in USD.
  2. Press Define company budget.
  3. The budget row now shows the amount and how much of it this month has used.
  4. Use Edit to change the amount, or Remove budget to stop tracking it.

How to read it

  • Every cost is frozen. Each run's cost was calculated from the price in effect when it ran. A later price change never rewrites history.
  • The routing line belongs to no run. In the unfiltered company view, Routing (belongs to no run) shows what it cost to direct questions to the right agent, and how many of those calls became a conversation.
  • Experiment spend is shown apart. The Experiment column tells you how much of an agent's cost came from experiment runs, so testing never hides inside ordinary usage.
  • By user counts only people. Scheduled runs belong to the agent, so they appear under Hierarchy and By owner, not under a person.

Good to know

  • A monthly budget is a soft threshold. It never stops a run; limits on a single run are set separately in each agent's configuration.
  • Removing a budget ends its tracking and keeps every spend record — the budget itself moves to the archive.
  • The company budget is set by a company admin; a workspace budget can be changed only by that workspace's admin.
  • Workspace admins see the spend of the workspaces they administer; company admins see the whole company.