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AI Cost Management: Track and attribute AI spend across every provider

Winter 2026Founded 20262 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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AI Cost AttributionSaaSAI teams, ML ops engineers, finops professionalsMedium competition
Moat
Multi-provider integrations; proprietary cost attribution models; real-time alerts and forecasting.
Key risk
Providers may build native cost tools (OpenAI, Anthropic); low switching cost; commoditization risk.
Why now
AI costs exploding across enterprises; finance teams demanding cost accountability and chargeback models.
Competitors
OpenAI Usage Dashboard, Anthropic Console, Langsmith (partial), Comet ML
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The problem: AI spend is scattered across multiple provider billing consoles that don't talk to each other. Teams can't answer simple questions like "which customer is driving our Anthropic bill?" or "is this feature profitable after AI costs?" without manually pulling data from each provider and stitching it together in a spreadsheet. What SuperPenguin does: SuperPenguin tracks AI spend across 14 providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Modal, Cursor and more). Zero-code setup: connect an API key and costs sync automatically with model-level breakdowns, trends, and forecasts. Per-request attribution: add two lines of Python SDK to tag every AI call by customer, feature, or team. Slack alerts on budget thresholds and spend anomalies. Most teams are set up in under five minutes. We help companies see where their AI money goes and whether it's worth it.

Founders ยท 2

Christopher Acker
Christopher AckerFounder

Carrot Labs Founder. Building the continuous learning platform for AI Agents https://carrotlabs.cal.com/chris/20-min-meeting

Yuta Baba
Yuta BabaFounder

Co-Founder of Carrot Labs. Previously Senior Data Scientist at Snowflake, where I was in charge of ML account-based bookings forecasts that shaped financial planning as the company scaled from $250M pre-IPO to $3.6B in revenue.

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