Every AI provider bills differently, and spend is easy to lose track of once more than one team is calling more than one model. Observra sits in front of your provider traffic as a gateway, so every request produces a structured cost record automatically, whichever provider served it.
What gets tracked
- Input and output token counts per request, mapped to the calling model.
- Per-request cost in USD, computed from provider pricing at the time of the call.
- Spend rolled up by organization, project, environment, and application.
- Monthly budget against current-month spend, computed from observed usage rather than estimates.
Why a gateway instead of provider dashboards
A provider billing dashboard only shows that provider's usage, so multi-provider spend never adds up in one view. Because Observra sits between your application and every provider, cost data is captured once, in one schema, across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, Azure OpenAI, Ollama, and OpenRouter. There is nothing to reconcile afterwards.
No code rewrites
Cost monitoring starts by pointing your existing provider SDK at the Observra gateway URL with a gateway key. No new SDK, and no change to your request or response shapes.