Product Guides / Costs•stable•Updated 2026-07-06

Costs

Understand the Costs menu and how AI spend is analyzed.

Understand the Costs menu and how AI spend is analyzed.

What this page is for

Use this page when you need to understand what the Costs surface does in Kadryn, how it supports the operating workflow, and how it connects to the rest of the product.

Who should use it

  • FinOps users who need operational visibility.
  • Engineering and platform teams that own AI workloads.
  • Admins who configure workspace rules, access and governance.
  • Executives or finance stakeholders when the page supports review or reporting.

What you can see

  • Spend summary and time range context
  • Provider, model, project and metadata dimensions
  • Data freshness and confidence signals
  • Links to reports, exports and troubleshooting

What you can do

  • Filter costs
  • Investigate drivers
  • Review forecasts
  • Prepare finance-ready reports or exports

Permissions and plan access

Visibility and editability can differ. Kadryn can show a read-only or locked view when the workspace plan, billing state or role does not allow mutation. Treat UI locks as guidance and backend guards as the source of truth.

How to use it

  1. Open the matching Kadryn menu.
  2. Confirm the workspace, time range, environment and filters.
  3. Review the summary cards before acting on individual rows.
  4. Use filters to isolate the relevant project, provider, team, owner or status.
  5. Open details before making a governance, billing or operational decision.
  6. Verify the result through the linked Costs, Alerts, Guardrails, Developers or Audit surface.

How Kadryn uses this data

  • Uses normalized usage events and aggregated cost records
  • Depends on provider pricing and metadata quality
  • Separates monitored AI usage from Kadryn SaaS billing

Common mistakes

  • Treating a summary card as the source of truth without opening the detail view.
  • Confusing product entitlements with provider billing.
  • Editing a setting without checking the affected scope.
  • Comparing environments without confirming metadata quality.
  • Ignoring stale, missing or synthetic data indicators.

Troubleshooting

  • If data is missing, check Developers → Logs & Traces and Costs → Data Health.
  • If an action is disabled, check your role, plan and billing state.
  • If a policy or cap blocks traffic unexpectedly, inspect Guardrails → Policies and Developers → Logs & Traces.
  • If counts look wrong, verify filters, archived/deleted toggles and the selected time range.

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