Your AI bill shows up clean. Your unit economics do not.
Roll inference spend into teams, SKUs, and releases so Finance gets numbers they can reuse and Engineering gets numbers they can stand behind.
CogsLayer is COGS for software: a single ledger both sides agree on before the quarterly review.
| Workload | Owner | Spend |
|---|---|---|
Search assistant OpenAI + Anthropic | Growth | $18,420 -3.8 pts |
Support agents OpenAI | CX | $9,810 -1.1 pts |
Internal copilots Cursor + Anthropic | Engineering | $6,240 R&D |
The problem
Your AI bill is a black box.
AI spend is the fastest-growing line item on your P&L and the least understood. Finance sees one number on an invoice. Engineering sees a dashboard in every vendor. Nobody sees the full picture.
Without CogsLayer
With CogsLayer
Who it's for
One platform. Every stakeholder.
CogsLayer gives Finance, Engineering, and Leadership the same numbers—each in the view they actually need.
Finance & FinOps
One dashboard for AI cost across every vendor. Chargeback, forecasts, and CFO-ready reports, without waiting on engineering or wrangling CSVs.
Engineering Leaders
See which features, teams, and models drive spend. Set budgets, catch anomalies, and report cost-per-feature to the rest of the org.
Developers & ML teams
Optional SDK for per-call, per-agent attribution down to the request. Two lines of code, zero added latency. Use it or skip it.
The platform
Attribute. Forecast. Reduce.
One shared source of truth for AI cost—from the PR that ships a feature to the line on the P&L.
Every dollar mapped to a feature, team, or customer.
Automatic attribution across your AI stack. No manual tagging, no spreadsheets. Finance sees true cost-per-customer. Engineering sees cost-per-feature. Leadership sees both.
Know what the bill will be before it arrives.
Burn-rate projections and budget alerts so Finance is never surprised. Shareable reports for board decks and QBRs, no CSV exports required.
Concrete savings, with realized ROI you can report.
Most teams cut 20–40% in the first month. CogsLayer surfaces waste (duplicate calls, retry loops, oversized models) and tracks every dollar saved in a ledger you can show the board.
How it works
Connect. Attribute. Reduce.
From API key to first insight in under 10 minutes. No engineering project required.
Connect in minutes, not months
Paste your provider API keys and CogsLayer starts reconciling billed costs immediately. No data pipeline, no DNS changes, no routing your traffic through a proxy.
Map cost to your business
Attribute spend to features, teams, customers, and environments. Finance gets chargeback. Engineering gets cost-per-feature. Leadership gets a single dashboard.
Cut cost, and prove it
CogsLayer flags waste and suggests fixes with expected savings. Every dollar saved is tracked in a ledger so you can report ROI to the board or CFO with confidence.
Engineering team? See the SDK docs →
One dashboard, every provider
Every AI vendor, reconciled.
Connect provider API keys and see billed costs in minutes. New providers added every month.
Today CogsLayer reconciles billed costs for OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Claude Code. Other providers are on the near-term roadmap. Ping us if one is blocking your evaluation.
Your ROI
Calculate your savings.
Most teams find 20–40% savings from model optimization, waste elimination, and caching opportunities in the first 30 days.
Estimated monthly savings
$7,750
Annual savings
$93,000
ROI
830%
CogsLayer pays for itself in 39 days
Book a demoPricing
Annual plans for serious AI spend.
Paid upfront, priced against monthly AI spend. Start with a 14-day AI cost review and prove savings before rollout.
Starter
For teams with under $25K/mo in AI spend
Annual AI cost control plan. Founder-led onboarding, attribution, alerts, and savings proof.
Design-partner rate · paid upfront · locked in 24 months
Scale
For teams with $25K–$150K/mo in AI spend
For finance-led rollouts. Deeper attribution, savings recommendations, GL write-back, and quarterly reviews.
Enterprise
For $150K+/mo spend or compliance requirements
For procurement-gated buyers. Compliance, SSO, VPC, dedicated success, and custom commercial terms.
Attribution and alerts in every plan. Savings, integrations, and compliance scale with annual spend.
Security & Compliance
Built for the security review.
CogsLayer is read-only by design. Your API keys are encrypted at rest, and your prompts are never seen. SOC 2, SSO, and VPC options are on the Enterprise roadmap.
Encrypted at rest
Provider credentials are encrypted (Fernet symmetric encryption) before storage. No plain-text keys, ever.
Read-only access
CogsLayer only reads billing and usage endpoints. Your keys cannot create resources, modify data, or access content.
Never sees your prompts
We never read prompts, completions, or any request content. Only cost and usage metadata, by design.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
See where every AI dollar goes.
Finance, engineering, and leadership on the same numbers. Live in under 10 minutes. Pays for itself in the first week.