How to Track and Control AI Spend Across Your Company | Cledara

AI tools now account for over $14,000 in average annual spend per company, spread across subscriptions, API usage, and embedded features that most finance teams do not track separately. This guide walks through a four-step system for AI spend management: building a complete inventory across all three spending categories, centralising payments through dedicated virtual cards, setting layered budgets with real-time anomaly alerts, and consolidating fragmented subscriptions into enterprise deals. With real pricing data from ChatGPT, Cursor, OpenAI API, and others, plus Cledara platform data showi