AI Cost Visibility: Stop Burning Tokens Without ROI
Track every AI query, per user, per department, per model — and finally see what your AI investment is actually delivering.
⚠️ 85% of enterprises cannot track their AI costs. The average organization burns 13x more AI tokens today than one year ago — and most have no idea what they're getting for it.
One enterprise developer racked up $150,000 in AI token spend in a single billing cycle. When leadership investigated, they found zero measurable ROI. No new product feature. No acceleration in customer support. Just an expensive shadow experiment running unchecked.
This is the AI cost visibility crisis. And it's happening in your organization right now.
The Problem: You Can't Manage What You Can't See
When employees use ChatGPT, Claude, or API-connected tools across your organization, the finance team sees a single massive line item on the cloud bill. They can't tell you:
- Which department consumed 40% of the budget on abandoned experiments
- Which user is running inefficient API loops overnight
- Which model is being used for each query
- What the actual cost-per-business-outcome is
This isn't a billing problem. It's a governance problem. And it's costing you real money.
How Xilos Solves It
Xilos is an AI governance platform that sits between your organization and every LLM provider. Every query — whether from WorkBench, an API integration, or a developer tool — flows through the Xilos gateway, giving you:
Per-User, Per-Department Cost Tracking
Every AI query is logged with the user, department, organization, model, token count, and cost. You get dashboards that show exactly who spent what, on which model, for what purpose.
Real-Time Query Log
Every prompt and response is captured in the Query Log with full metadata: routing rule applied, model used, token counts, cost, and governance flags. Searchable, filterable, exportable.
Budget Caps and Quotas
Set monthly token limits per organization, department, or user. When limits are approached, users get warnings. When exceeded, requests are blocked — no more $150K surprises.
Cost-per-Outcome Analytics
Xilos doesn't just track tokens — it tracks what those tokens produced. Connect queries to business workflows and see the actual ROI of your AI investment.
The Numbers
| Metric | Without Xilos | With Xilos |
|---|---|---|
| Cost visibility | Single API bill | Per-user, per-dept breakdown |
| Query logging | None or manual | Automatic, real-time |
| Budget control | None | Per-org/user caps |
| ROI tracking | Impossible | Per-query outcome attribution |
| Shadow AI detection | "Hope and pray" | Every query routed and logged |
Take Control of Your AI Spend
You don't need to guess what your AI investment is delivering. Xilos gives you the visibility, control, and governance to make every token count.
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