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Usage and Cost#

Open Analytics → Usage and Cost to review AI usage, spend, token consumption, and reliability across the organization.

OptScale AI Usage and Cost Totals tab with summary metrics and token and request charts

The page provides organization-wide totals, cost analysis, and scoped activity views for models, users, agents, and teams.

For scenario-based examples, see Use Cases — Analyze AI spend and usage.

Overview#

The page includes the following views:

  • Totals — Overall request volume, tokens, and reliability.
  • Cost — Spend and token consumption by model and user.
  • Model Activity — Usage, cost, tokens, and reliability for a selected model.
  • User Activity — Usage, cost, model usage, and reliability for a selected user.
  • Agent Activity — Usage, cost, model distribution, and reliability for a selected agent.
  • Team Activity — Usage, spend, model usage, and reliability for a selected team.

Totals#

The Totals tab provides an organization-wide view of AI activity for the selected time range.

OptScale AI Usage and Cost Totals tab with summary metrics and token and request charts

It includes:

  • Total Tokens — Input, output, total, and cache read token consumption over time.
  • Total Requests — Successful, failed, and total request volume over time.

Use this view to identify usage and reliability trends before investigating specific cost drivers or entities.

For examples, see Use Cases — Analyze AI spend and usage.

Cost#

The Cost tab shows how AI spend and token consumption are distributed across the organization.

OptScale AI Usage and Cost Cost tab with model and user breakdown charts

It includes:

  • Cost Breakdown — Spend over time.
  • Models Breakdown — Spend or token consumption by model.
  • Users Breakdown — Spend or token consumption by user.

Switch between Spend and Total tokens to compare financial cost with usage volume.

For examples, see Use Cases — Analyze AI spend and usage.

Activity tabs#

The Model Activity, User Activity, Agent Activity, and Team Activity tabs provide scoped analytics for the selected model, user, agent, or team and time range.

  • Model Activity — Usage, cost, token consumption, and reliability for a selected model.

OptScale AI Usage and Cost Model Activity tab with model-scoped metrics and charts

  • User Activity — Usage, cost, model usage, and reliability for a selected user.

OptScale AI Usage and Cost User Activity tab with user-scoped metrics and charts

  • Agent Activity — Usage, cost, model distribution, and reliability for a selected application or agent.

OptScale AI Usage and Cost Agent Activity tab with agent-scoped metrics and charts

  • Team Activity — Usage, spend, model usage, and reliability for a selected team.

OptScale AI Usage and Cost Team Activity tab with team-scoped metrics and charts

Select an entity from the corresponding dropdown to update the summary cards and charts.

For examples, see Use Cases — Analyze AI spend and usage.

See also#

  • Home — Monitor organization-wide metrics and trends.
  • Optimizations — Measure savings from cache reads and related optimizations.
  • Traces — Inspect individual requests.