See what agents cost and who owns the spend
Token spend is usually the first thing about an agent estate that a budget review notices, and it rarely arrives attributed to anyone. Geordie ties agent spend to the agent, the action and the owner behind it, from the same record security and IT already use, so cost becomes something you can allocate, question and manage.
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Agent spend lands on the invoice long before anyone can explain it
At one software company we spoke to, monthly agent spend per employee ranged from $2 to $2,000, and three separate teams were each analyzing it on their own. Spend is drifting toward the business units that benefit from the work, with finance setting the chargeback model and holding the line, but that only works when every dollar can be traced to an agent and an owner.
What are we actually spending on agents?
Agent spend is spread across platform subscriptions, cloud bills and API keys, and arrives without any link to the agents or people behind it.
Which team should carry the cost?
Chargeback needs spend tied to the team that benefits, which most organizations cannot do below the level of a whole platform.
Is the spend producing anything?
An agent running at $2,000 a month on revenue work can be cheap, while a $50 agent nobody uses is not, so cost alone answers the wrong question.
Where is money leaking?
Agents keep running after their job is done, run on models larger than their task needs, or duplicate work another team already pays for.
You set the chargeback model while the spend sits with the teams running agents
In most organizations we speak to, security wants nothing to do with agent cost, and the direction of travel is chargeback: business units own their consumption, line managers approve spend tiers, and finance sets the model. What makes that workable is per-agent attribution, which depends on telemetry finance does not run.
Finance owns
Settled- The chargeback model How agent spend is allocated to the teams that benefit from it.
- Holding the line Budgets, thresholds and the questions a spend review asks.
- Cost reporting What the business spends on agents, and how it is trending.
Finance shares
Often contested- Cost and FinOps With the business units running agents and approving spend tiers.
- Platform budgets With platform engineering, for agents run as production workloads.
- Cost against output With AI operations and the business, who judge what the work is worth.
Finance depends on
Usually owned elsewhere- Per-agent attribution Spend tied to agents comes from the telemetry record.
- A complete inventory You cannot allocate spend for agents nobody knows exist.
- Named owners Every agent needs someone to charge it back to.
From our research series, Who should own agent security and operations?
Agent spend you can allocate, question and manage
Attribution
Spend tied to the agent, the action and the owner
The instrumentation that observes an agent for security already captures what it consumed doing the work, so Geordie can attribute spend to the agent that incurred it, the action that drove it and the person who owns it. Token consumption stops being one unattributed line on a cloud bill.
Chargeback
Allocate spend to the teams that benefit
Every agent carries an owner and a team, so spend can be grouped the way your chargeback model needs it, and the agents with no owner surface as their own line instead of disappearing into a shared bill. Line managers can approve a tier knowing exactly which agents it covers.
Waste
Find where agent spend is leaking
Because spend is tied to behavior, Geordie can show where money is going on work that is not needed: agents that keep running after their job is done, agents running on larger models than their task requires, and several agents in different teams paying for the same job.
Cost and risk
Cost and risk in the same record
Agent risk and agent spend come from the same behavior, so they live in the same record. When finance questions an agent's cost, security can see its risk, and when security flags an agent, finance can see what it costs to keep running, which gives both teams the same facts in a spend review.
"Cost Intelligence is starting to give us a better read on whether all that connectivity is actually worth what it costs." Jacob Sweat, VP Technology, Wood Partners
The numbers finance needs, from a record other teams already trust
Geordie does not ask finance to run anything new. The spend view comes from the same telemetry security and IT rely on, which means the numbers and the risk picture always agree.
- By agent and action Spend traced to the agent that incurred it and the action behind it.
- By owner and team Grouped the way a chargeback model needs it.
- By platform and model Where the spend goes across vendors and model sizes.
- Alongside risk The same record security uses, so cost and risk never disagree.
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See where your agent spend is going
We will show you what your agents cost, which agents and owners drive it, and where spend is accumulating on work nobody needs.