AI Explorer

Every model. Every provider. One view of your LLM usage.

Your team's LLM usage is scattered across API dashboards, coding tools, and cloud consoles — each with its own model names and units. The AI Explorer normalises all of it into one lens: usage by model, project, and user, measured in tokens and API-equivalent value.

On the Business plan — free to try during your 14-day trial.

Usage by model · last 30 days

$8.2k ≈ API value · 1.9B tokens

4 providers

claude-sonnet-5

Claude Code · 812M tokens

$3.4k

gpt-5

OpenAI · 414M tokens

$2.9k

gemini-2.5-pro

Vertex · 512M tokens

$1.4k

gpt-5-mini

OpenAI · 162M tokens

$0.5k

claude-sonnet-5 · Input 61% · Output 9% · Cache read 27% · Cache write 3% — blended ≈ $4.15 / 1M tokens

Illustrative example.

Direct answer

What is the AI Explorer in StackSpend?

The AI Explorer is a cross-provider view of LLM usage: every model your team uses, from every connected provider and tool, normalised into one lens and measured in tokens and API-equivalent dollar value. Group it by provider, model, project, or user; drill into input, output, and cache token splits per model; and export any view. Estimated and billed usage stay honestly separate throughout.

Capabilities

Built for the question "what are we actually running?"

Every model, standardised

Raw model strings and billing SKUs resolve to one standardised base model, so the same model used via an API, a coding tool, and a cloud platform rolls up to a single row — across OpenAI, Anthropic and Claude Code, Cursor, Google Vertex and Gemini, Grok, and more.

Sliced how you manage

Group usage by provider, model, project, or user; filter any combination; chart it as stacked bars, lines, or area; and pivot it into a daily, weekly, or monthly table you can export as CSV or JSON.

Direction drill-down

Expand a model to see its input, output, cache-read, and cache-write token split, billed dollars per direction where the vendor bills that way, and a blended effective rate per million tokens at your actual mix.

Honest by design

Estimated and billed usage are kept separate and deduplicated, unpriced usage never shows a fake $0, per-provider coverage flags mark exactly what data exists, and non-generative models stay out of your token totals.

Honest numbers

Usage value is not your bill — and we say so.

Dollar figures in the AI Explorer are API-equivalent value: what the usage would cost at API list rates. That makes subscription-tool usage comparable with pay-as-you-go API spend in one number — but it is not an invoice, so billed cost is always shown separately, estimated and billed rows are deduplicated, and anything without a known price shows tokens with no dollar value rather than a fake zero.

When you're ready to act on what you see, Model Recommendations take the same usage mix and find cheaper equal-or-better alternatives.

Tokens

The raw unit — comparable across every provider, immune to price changes.

API-equivalent value

Usage × list rates. One number that makes Claude Code, Cursor, and API usage comparable.

Billed cost

What the vendor actually charged. Always shown separately, never blended.

Questions

Frequently asked

What is the AI Explorer in StackSpend?
The AI Explorer is a cross-provider view of LLM usage: every model your team uses, from every connected provider and tool, normalised into one lens and measured in tokens and API-equivalent dollar value — grouped by provider, model, project, or user, with input/output/cache drill-downs per model.
What is API-equivalent usage value?
API-equivalent usage value is what your LLM usage would cost at API list rates. It makes usage from subscription tools like Claude Code and Cursor comparable with pay-as-you-go API spend in one number — and it is explicitly not your bill, which is why StackSpend always shows billed cost separately.
How do I track token spend across providers in one place?
Connect each provider or tool to StackSpend — API providers with read-only keys, coding tools like Claude Code via an OpenTelemetry usage feed. The AI Explorer then normalises model names across all of them and shows usage by model, project, and user in one view, in tokens and API-equivalent value.
Can I see LLM usage per user or per project?
Yes, where the provider reports it. The AI Explorer groups and filters by user and project, and per-provider coverage flags make it explicit when a provider does not supply user- or project-level data rather than showing a misleading total.
Why do input, output, and cache tokens matter?
Because they are priced differently: output tokens typically cost several times more than input tokens, and cache reads cost a fraction of fresh input. Two teams using the same model with different mixes have different effective rates — the AI Explorer shows your blended rate per model, and Model Recommendations price alternatives at that same mix.
Which plan includes the AI Explorer?
The AI Explorer is available on the Business plan, and free to try during your 14-day trial — every trial gets full Business features, so you can connect your providers and see your real token usage before you decide.

See what your team is actually running.

Connect your AI providers and tools, and the AI Explorer shows usage by model, project, and user — in one lens, with honest numbers.

Ready to optimise? See model recommendations.
AI Explorer — LLM Usage Analytics by Model — StackSpend