The RootSpend blog
Notes for engineering and finance teams on what data and AI tools really cost, and how to pay less for them.
How to track OpenAI API costs per team, project and person
Your OpenAI invoice tells you how much you spent, not who spent it. Here is how to split every dollar of API spend between the teams and people behind it.
Idle Snowflake warehouses: how to find them and what they cost you
Snowflake bills a running warehouse whether it is busy or not. Here is how to find warehouses that sit idle, work out what that costs, and fix it safely.
Read moreWho pays for the shared warehouse? A practical guide to cost allocation
When one warehouse or one AI account serves many teams, someone still has to pay. Five ways to split the cost, the order to use them in, and how to keep totals honest.
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