Track agent AI costs

Track what your AI-Native agents spend, down to the specific function or action being performed, so you can budget and optimize. Use the Report View in Foldspace.

Note

This report is currently in beta.

Why use this report

• Cost Attribution: identify exactly which agent capabilities (for example, “Search Knowledge” vs. “Create Agent”) are driving your bill.
• Trend Analysis: spot daily spikes in spending to correlate with new feature launches or traffic surges.
• Budgeting: use historical data to forecast future LLM resource requirements.

Step-by-step configuration

1. Create a new Event Explorer report and select the activity source

In the Events or Metrics section (sidebar):

• Select the event Action Called. This event triggers every time your agent performs a distinct task.

2. Configure the cost metric

By default, reports count how many times an event happened. To track cost, you must change the aggregation:

• Click the dropdown label that says Total Events or Unique (under the event name).
• Select Aggregate Property.
• Choose the property Estimated cost.
• Select Sum as the method.

The metric label should now read: User Sum of Estimated cost.

3. Break down by action

To see each function represented as its own colored segment in the chart:

• Go to the Breakdown section in the sidebar.
• Select Action key.

Without this, you will only see a single total bar. Adding this breakdown separates the cost for search_knowledge, open_support_ticket, and other actions.

4. Visualization settings

• Chart Type: set to Stacked Bar (top right dropdown). This is best for visualizing how different actions contribute to the total daily cost.
• Time Range: select 7D or 30D to see recent trends.

Interpreting the data

The stacked bar chart

The visual graph shows your total daily spend, segmented by action type.

• Height of bar: represents the total cost for that day.
• Colored segments: show the portion of cost attributed to specific actions.

For example, a large segment on a given day indicates that search_knowledge was the primary cost driver for that day.

The data table

Below the chart, the table provides the exact financial impact of each action.

• Total: the cumulative cost of that action over the selected timeframe.
• Average: the typical daily cost.
• Daily Breakdown: the exact spend per day (for example, search_knowledge cost $0.037 on Jan 12).

Tip

If you notice a specific action (like search_knowledge) becoming too expensive, you may need to optimize the prompt tokens or cache the results for that specific tool.