Recoverable AI spend

What’s your AI stack really wasting?

Start with the seats nobody uses, add routing the routine work to a cheaper model, and see the return against a Spendassay plan. Priced from vendors’ published rates — then get the exact figure from your real data.

What you'd recover — and what it returns

Start with idle seats (the finding your free Snapshot returns), add model routing on Control, and see the ROI against a Spendassay plan.

Monthly seat / subscription spendCopilot, Cursor, ChatGPT seats — the entry-point waste.Engineers coveredUsed to price your Spendassay plan for the ROI below.

Add model routing (Control)

Route the routine share of your API traffic to a cheaper model.

Monthly API / token spendWhat you pay the model vendors, per month.Primary modelThe model most of that spend runs on.Routine share — 45%How much of that traffic is classification, tagging, summarizing, extraction — work a cheaper model handles.Input:output mix — 3:1Prompts and context per token of completion.

Lever 1 — recover idle & duplicate seats

10 to 15% band

$1,200 – $1,800 / mo

The band independent audits typically recover from the seat and subscription half of the bill: idle seats, underused licenses, overlapping tools, and renewals. Lever 2 below is where token spend gets recovered. Your free Snapshot returns these findings once (account required); Observe tracks them continuously.

Lever 2 — route the routine work down

Available with Control — private beta

$1,350 / mo

Moving 45% of Claude Opus 4.8 traffic to Claude Sonnet 5 — 60% cheaper per token at a full swap. A Control capability, on your own provider keys.

Show the formula and the prices it used

375.0M input + 125.0M output tokens repriced from claude-opus-4-8 ($5/$25 per Mtok) to claude-sonnet-5 ($2/$10 per Mtok), then × 45% routine share.

Claude Opus 4.8 — $5 in / $25 out per million tokens · vendor price page · read 2026-07-23
Claude Sonnet 5 — $2 in / $10 out per million tokens · vendor price page · read 2026-07-23

Your combined return

Lever 1 is yours on Observe. Lever 2 needs Control. Here is each, priced at 50 engineers.

Observe only — the read-only audit

$16 / engineer

Recover $1,200 to $1,800 /mo on the seat findings, pay $800 /mo. Net $400 to $1,000 /mo — 1.5× to 2.3×.

Observe + Control — adds routing

$40 / engineer · private beta

Recover $2,550 to $3,150 /mo on the seat findings plus model routing, pay $2,000 /mo. Net $550 to $1,150 /mo. Routing runs on your own provider keys.

Annual net on Observe alone: $4,800 to $12,000. Observe is the full read-only audit, priced per engineer.

Include Control routing (private beta — highlights the Observe + Control line)

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