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The Anthropic Enterprise connector pulls per-user Claude Enterprise cost and usage into CloudZero, so you can allocate Claude spend to the teams that drove it.

The core of ROI is visibility. If you can clearly see … 1. What it costs to produce the thing you make, and 2. How much money it makes you … then calculating ROI is easy. But with AI, as with the cloud before it, getting that visibility is extremely challenging. Why? Because the cost data associated with each is inherently chaotic.

CloudZero Explorer now tracks your query history and lets you save up to 12 configurations and 10 favorite dimensions, so your most-used cost analyses are one click away.

Eight new Azure recommendation types now scan your environment for idle, unattached, and over-provisioned resources, then tell you exactly what to cut.

This is the first in a series we’re calling AI ROI Dispatches, where we share stories from CloudZero and our customers on tying AI spend to real business outcomes.

CloudZero now splits an Amazon Bedrock line item into spend by model and by the team, user, or project behind each call, straight from your AWS bill.

How to track expenses for a business: categorize expense types (operating, software, cloud, travel, capital), choose a tracking method (spreadsheet, accounting software, expense management tool, or cost intelligence platform), connect data sources (bank feeds, cloud billing APIs, SaaS invoices), assign ownership per cost center, set a reporting schedule, and audit quarterly.

The CloudZero VS Code Extension 2.0 adds a sidebar that brings CostFormation namespace management directly into your editor, so you never have to break flow for a browser tab.

In Explorer, you build a filter set and group-by to answer a cost question, and often that’s exactly the configuration you’d want to save for later. But saving it as a View meant navigating away from Explorer, opening the Views page, and rebuilding the same configuration from scratch: filter by filter, dimension by dimension. That friction was enough to discourage saving exploratory analysis as a View at all You can now save any Explorer analysis as a View in place.

AI pricing covers the cost structures and billing models providers use to charge for AI products: per-token APIs (GPT-4o at $2.50/1M input tokens), per-seat subscriptions (Copilot at $30/user/month), per-conversation billing (Agentforce at $2/conversation), and consumption-based GPU compute (H100 instances at $55.04/hour). There is no standard. The total AI cost is almost always higher than the sticker price.