AI Cost Control

Every dollar your team spends on AI, accounted for

FORG gives engineering leaders per-team budgets, multi-level alerts at 50/80/100%, automatic throttling, and full attribution to every user, project, and adapter. Teams using FORG often target around 30–40% lower AI spend within 30 days — actual results vary by team and workflow.

Install FORG Explore budgets feature
~40%
Illustrative cost reduction within 30 days of deploying budgets (results vary)
$0
Surprise invoices reported by teams with FORG budgets active
5 min
Median time to configure first team budget and alert thresholds

Without governance, AI spend is a black box

Most teams discover their AI costs on billing day — after the damage is done. By then the invoice is locked, the overage is charged, and nobody knows which team caused it.

  1. 1A single engineer kicks off a large batch job on GPT-4 and the bill doubles.
  2. 2Finance asks which team is responsible — engineering shrugs.
  3. 3Someone turns off AI features to cut costs, killing user-facing functionality.
  4. 4Next month: the same thing happens because there were no limits in place.
terminal
$ forg budget list

TEAM                 BUDGET      USED        USED%   STATUS
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
api-backend          $300/mo     $127.40     42%     OK
frontend-ai          $150/mo     $121.50     81%     ALERT ⚠
data-pipelines       $500/mo     $498.72     99%     CRITICAL ✖
ml-research          $800/mo     $312.00     39%     OK
product-search       $200/mo     $160.00     80%     ALERT ⚠
devtools             $100/mo     $18.90      19%     OK

─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
TOTAL                $2,050/mo   $1,238.52   60%

⚠ 1 team over 95% — throttle will engage at 100%
→ 2 teams above 80% alert threshold
  Run `forg budget alert --team data-pipelines` to manage

Real-time budget status across every team — from a single command.

Before and after FORG

Without FORG

  • Costs discovered on billing day, after the invoice is locked
  • No visibility into which team or engineer drove spend
  • Manual spreadsheet tracking that's always one day stale
  • No automatic throttle — a runaway job can double the bill

With FORG

  • Alerts fire at 50%, 80%, and 100% — time to act before you hit the limit
  • Every dollar attributed to a team, project, user, and adapter in real time
  • Dashboards update continuously, not once a month on invoice day
  • Automatic throttling kicks in so a runaway job can't blow past budget

Everything you need to own AI costs

Purpose-built controls that fit into existing engineering workflows — not another dashboard nobody opens.

Set Granular Budgets

Assign monthly or daily spend limits to any team, project, or individual adapter. Limits can be set in dollars or token counts — whichever maps to your planning model.

Multi-level Alerts

FORG fires notifications at configurable thresholds — default 50%, 80%, and 100%. Alerts land in Slack, PagerDuty, email, or any webhook. You decide who gets paged.

Automatic Throttling

When a team crosses its hard limit, FORG queues or blocks further requests automatically. No engineering work required — the guardrail is enforced at the proxy layer.

Full Attribution

Every inference is tagged with user, team, project, and adapter before it leaves the machine. Attribution is immutable — no retroactive guessing from log analysis.

Historical Trends

30/60/90-day cost trends per team, model, and adapter. Spot which teams are accelerating spend before the bill arrives. Export to CSV, JSON, or your data warehouse.

Export Reports

One-click exports formatted for finance, board decks, and vendor negotiations. Includes model-level breakdowns, peak usage windows, and month-over-month delta.

Stop the AI bill surprises

Set your first budget in under 5 minutes. No infrastructure changes. Works with every major AI provider from day one.

Install FORG