Anomaly detected. Search team usage jumped 3x overnight. Forecast now 42% over budget.
2 min ago
Overview
August · month to date
Spend, MTD
$38,412
Tokens
21.4M
Forecast, month-end
$61,200
Days to limit
11
Daily spend
Last 30 days, dollars per day
The line starts bending upward in the last week.
Spend by provider
Share of this month
Claude 47%
OpenAI 31%
Gemini 19%
Top teams
| Search team up 3x | $14,900 |
| Support bot | $4,120 |
| Data pipeline | $3,880 |
Spend Explorer
By team, provider, and model
| Team | Primary model | Tokens | Spend MTD | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search team | Claude Opus | 9.8M | $14,900 | up 3x |
| Support bot | GPT-4o mini | 4.1M | $4,120 | steady |
| Data pipeline | Gemini Flash | 3.6M | $3,880 | steady |
| Sales assist | Claude Sonnet | 2.1M | $2,540 | steady |
| Docs search | GPT-4o | 1.8M | $2,010 | down 8% |
One team, Search, is driving almost the entire jump. It runs a frontier model on a high-volume workload.
Forecast
Projected to month-end at current run-rate
Spent so far
$38,412
Projected month-end
$61,200
Projected overage
$18,200
Actual vs forecast
Solid is actual to date. Dashed is projected. The flat line is budget.
Actual
Forecast
Budget
Optimize
Right-sizing, with the accuracy tradeoff shown
Recommendations
Each shows the cost saving and the accuracy you would give up. You decide.
Search team: Claude Opus → Haikuhigh-volume classification, low reasoning need
-41% cost
accuracy -2.1%
accuracy -2.1%
Docs search: GPT-4o → GPT-4o miniretrieval + short answers
-63% cost
accuracy -3.4%
accuracy -3.4%
Support bot: cache repeated prompts38% of calls are near-duplicates
-22% cost
accuracy 0%
accuracy 0%
Savings identified this month$9,240
Governance
Rules escalate. A human decides before any action.
Escalation rules
Budget thresholds for the Search team
80%Notify the owning team
90%Notify the CFO, warn the team
95%Notify CFO and CTOapproval required
100%Throttle runaway jobhuman approves
Waiting for review
SpendTower never acts on its own
Search team hit 100% of budget.
Recommended action: throttle the runaway job to a spend cap. Everything else keeps running.
Approved by you. Runaway job throttled. Production untouched.