Shared agents
AI Cost Management
Full visibility, optimization, and governance for every dollar of cloud and AI spend.
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//Cost Management Agent
Your agent owns every dollarof cloud and AI spend.
Full visibility into cloud and AI spend, as the Cost Management Agent attributes, optimizes, and governs at the level of autonomy you choose.
AI costs
Know what your AI actually costs
Spot overpowered models, bloated prompts, and retry loops, then fix the waste before it compounds.
Engineering efficiency
Spot overspending before it compounds
Every AI session tied to a developer, with spend flagged when it outpaces what they ship.
Cloud costs
Catch cloud waste before it adds up
Cost anomalies the moment they happen, broken down by provider.
//Overview
What is a cost management agent?
A cost management agent is an AI agent that attributes cloud and AI spend to the teams, services and features that cause it, finds waste and acts on it, within the level of autonomy you choose.
The DataObserve Developer Cost Management Agent covers AI costs, cloud costs and engineering efficiency. It automates AutoStopping and commitments, handles chargeback and showback, detects anomalies and enforces budgets written in plain English.
//Ask the agent
Answers about spend,in plain language.
Can you break down my daily AI costs by provider?
Spend by provider
Which provider leads your spend, total AI cost this month and its trend, with daily averages per token, inference, and session.
//Key cost management features
Everything behind the Cost Management Agent
AutoStopping
Idle VMs and Kubernetes workloads stopped automatically and restarted on demand.
Commitment Orchestrator
The right Reserved Instance and Savings Plan mix across AWS, Azure, and GCP, re-optimized as usage shifts.
Unit attribution
Every dollar mapped to its team, workload, model, or agent.
Budget and anomaly detection
Real-time budgets per team, with alerts before month end.
Chargeback and showback
Cost allocation by team, cost center, and business unit.
AI spend per shipped feature
Tokens burned on work that never shipped, surfaced.
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AI Costs
Spend captured at the token, request, and workflow level, tied to the agent, session, or business outcome that triggered it.
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Cloud Costs
Cost anomalies the moment they happen, broken down by provider, with idle resources, rightsizing and commitments handled automatically.
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Engineering Efficiency
DORA metrics, developer productivity, and AI tool spend, tracked together.
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//Spend control
Spend control your CFO will trust
Configurable autonomy
The agent recommends, waits for approval, or acts on its own, scoped by team, workload, or budget.
Budget and policy enforcement
Spend limits and approved-model policies by team, enforced in real time.
Natural language policy authoring
Describe a rule in plain English and it becomes an enforced policy across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
//FAQs
Cost Management Agent: questions teams ask
Can the cost agent act without approval?
Only if you allow it. The agent can recommend, wait for approval or act on its own, scoped by team, workload or environment.
What is AutoStopping?
AutoStopping shuts down idle non-production resources and starts them again when they are needed, so you only pay for active use.
What is chargeback versus showback?
Showback reports costs to the teams that caused them. Chargeback bills those costs to the teams' budgets.
Can cost policies be written in plain English?
Yes. Describe a rule in plain English and it becomes an enforced policy.
