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Customer usage control for B2B AI products

See every customer's AI usage. Control what happens next.

Track AI usage by customer. Set allowances, enforce limits, and enable PAYG.

Hard limits, forecasts, and confirmed email or Slack anomaly alerts are included with Meter.

100,000 usage events free each month · No card required · Includes $10 starting credit

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or your own agent via MCP

Understand and control customer AI usage

Meter connects the dots

  • Know who used what

    Attribute each call, token, agent action, or custom event to the right customer.

  • Control usage before cost

    Apply allowances and limits before expensive AI work runs.

  • Know when the pattern changes

    Get email or Slack alerts when usage or spend breaks from its learned baseline.

When seats stop measuring usage

Your next power user may not be a person.

One customer can launch dozens of agents, automations, and background workflows without adding a single seat. UsageTap connects that machine work to the customer account, so you can include usage, charge overages, or enforce limits.

Illustrative customer scenario

Margin at risk
  1. Starting contract

    10 paid seats

    Revenue is tied to ten people.

  2. Machine workforce

    40 agents launch

    Automations run without creating new seats.

  3. Economics diverge

    8× more AI work

    Provider cost grows while seat revenue stays flat.

  4. UsageTap meters

    Usage becomes billable

    Attribute work to the account, bill it, or limit it.

THE USAGETAP PICTURE

Start with visibility.
Add control when you’re ready.

Wrap existing LLM calls or report custom usage. Track OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, self-hosted models and API workloads against the same customer usage record.

  • Keep your providers and models
  • Meter calls, agent actions and custom events
  • Add allowances, limits and PAYG when you're ready
Start meteringSee the integration guide
YOUR FIRST CONNECTIONSelect a step to explore
Calls go directly
The wrapper reports usage
Live ViewRecent callsUsage by customer
One wrapper is enough to start.

UsageTap Live View · example workspace

Free evidence-first tools

Start with what you already have

Choose the path that matches the evidence available today. Each starts useful and keeps account creation optional.

Have OpenAI or Anthropic billing exports?

Analyze your AI spend

Upload billing CSVs to see trends, anomalies, model mix, cached-token behavior, and forecast direction. No account or code required.

Analyze billing exports

Can add a small wrapper to your application?

Run a live 30-day usage analysis

See usage and cost from the first observed call, attributed to real application workloads.

Start live usage analysis

Have an expensive or oversized prompt?

Test prompt compression

Paste one prompt and see what can be removed, what is preserved, and how many tokens you could save.

Test a prompt

Production proof · FocusedFit.ai

Metering uncovered optimization they weren't looking for.

FocusedFit.ai implemented UsageTap to attribute AI usage to customers and support plans, limits, and billing. Within about a week, production visibility helped uncover a cache-breaking instruction, a silent data-truncation bug, and duplicated context.

Read the FocusedFit.ai case study →
Input tokens cached
~71%

Representative production calls

Major context payload
150 KB → 40 KB

After fixing the application

Additional compression estimated
3–5%

So the team left it off

UsageTap for AI agentsMCP

Connect your agents to customer usage.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, or your own MCP-compatible agents and workflows to review customer allowances, spot unusual usage, and compare recorded AI costs.

Requires a UsageTap account. Read-only access: the connection cannot change plans, contact customers, or modify account data.

Try asking your agent

  • Which customers need attention because of low remaining allowance or unusual recent usage?
  • Show me our active customers and their current account status.
  • Summarize our AI usage over the last seven days and rank the models by recorded cost.

Answers use the customer and usage data recorded in your UsageTap account.

Monitoring and control · Included with Meter

Monitor changes. Enforce your limits.

UsageTap Guard

Investigate changing behavior

API usage shifts toward exports. LLM output sizes change. Guard compares reported application behavior to help investigate significant changes that may indicate misuse or runaway work, even when totals stay steady.

  • LLM behavior: cache reuse, output/input ratios, output sizes and recorded cost per completed application call.
  • API and agent work: feature and task-type consumption shares, plus reported API call rate against its daily pattern.
  • Custom meters: feature and task-type shares of pages, searches or other units within the same application meter.

Comparisons need enough usable history. Organization admins inspect saved evidence; a finding is a reason to investigate.

Spend protection

Set known boundaries. Watch usage and spend.

Configured allowances and limits enforce policy when your application checks them before work begins. Forecasts show where usage is heading; general anomaly alerts flag confirmed usage or spend anomalies.

Usage or spend spikes: A new workflow may be taking off—or an automated process may be running away.

Budget burn accelerates: Projected month-end spend may be crossing the budget your team configured.

A customer nears a limit: A hard boundary can stop known overages before expensive work begins.

Provider-reported spend is authoritative daily; metered calls add faster hourly estimates.

See how spend protection works →

Email and Slack notifications are opt-in and default off. Alerts support investigation; configured Meter limits enforce policy separately. Guard does not automatically block activity.

Customer-facing usage

Give every customer a clear view of their usage.

Put current consumption, remaining allowance, forecast, and plan status inside your product. Customers can act before a limit or invoice becomes a surprise.

Match usage to the language of your product
Show plan status without exposing provider costs
Keep customers and account teams on the same record
Explore customer-facing usage
UsageTap's embedded usage and billing widget in dark mode, showing available credit, Add credit, meter consumption against allowances, reset date and a projected-limit warning.
Real embedded widget, shown with UsageTap's own account usage.View full-size widget (opens in a new tab)

Install Meter with your coding agent

Point Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot at the UsageTap integration guide. It will locate your provider calls, preserve your existing SDK, add customer attribution and pre-call policy checks, and run the relevant tests.

Read the full canonical instructions

UsageTap Compress

Reduce application context. Keep what the task needs.

Compact structured context during model calls or turn reusable source material into smaller, task-ready context—with checks for the facts, values, structure, and behavior that must remain.

Deterministic first · Editable Quality Checks · Original-input fallback for Runtime

Simple prepaid pricing

Use the included monthly allowances before adding credit.

Meter included

100,000 usage events free every month, then graduated rates from $0.20 to $0.05 per 1,000

Compress included

5M real-time tokens saved free every month

Easy to start

No card required, plus $10 in starting credit and no automatic paid subscription

See how UsageTap pricing works →

Plan with your own numbers

Model allowances, overages, and margin before you deploy.

Test included usage, overage rates, and margin using your own cost and customer assumptions.

Simulate a usage plan

Choose a usage unit

AI actionWorkflowGenerated outputAPI callCredit

Plan your AI economics

Ten field checks for healthier AI economics

Free, vendor-neutral worksheets for launching a product or adding AI to one you already run.

Survive the launch: an illustrated field guide with a rocket, a founder, and rising AI costs.

Survive the launch

Ten practical checks for founders and builders planning a new AI product, free trial, or rapid launch.

Download the startup guide

PDF · 24 pages · No signup required

Add AI and keep your margins: an illustrated field guide showing an AI feature added to an established SaaS product.

Add AI. Keep your margins.

Ten practical checks for product, engineering, finance, and commercial teams adding AI to an established application.

Download the existing product guide

PDF · 26 pages · No signup required

Want to discuss your plan? Book a 30-minute application readiness review.

Book a readiness review →

Know what every customer is using.

Start tracking AI usage by customer, apply plan limits, and send trusted usage to Stripe.