teamspend

What is teamspend, and why does it exist

teamspend is a command-line tool that answers one question:when a team moves from one AI coding tool to another, or runs two at once, what did that actually cost, in real dollars, pulled straight from each vendor's own admin API?

It exists because no vendor's dashboard can answer that question, structurally. Cursor's Admin API reports Cursor spend. Anthropic's Claude Enterprise Analytics API reports Claude Code spend. Neither has a reason to show a competitor's number next to its own, so a team mid-migration is left opening two dashboards and doing the subtraction by hand. teamspend does the same thing adiffdoes for two files: it pulls both sides through the same normalized schema and prints one honest delta.

It is deliberately narrow. teamspend does not run continuously, does not host a dashboard, and does not track more than a before/after window for two tools at a time. It is a single command that answers a single question and exits.

Why this matters right now.AI coding agent spend has stopped being a rounding error. Uber's CTO disclosed to The Information that the company's engineering org burned through its entire 2026 AI tooling budget in about four months, as Claude Code adoption climbed from 32% to 84% across roughly 5,000 engineers (](https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/teamspend/blob/HEAD/python/src/teamspend/mcp_server.py)Forbes,Fortune) -- Uber's COO put it plainly: "it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and producing 25% more useful consumer features." Microsoft's Experiences and Devices division canceled internal Claude Code licenses and moved engineers to GitHub Copilot CLI after costs ran past its annual AI budget (The Verge, reported onward byWindows Central). A FinOps survey of 127 enterprise agentic AI deployments found 73% went over budget, some by up to 2.4x (TechTimes,beri.net). Every vendor answered with its own budget controls this year: Claude Enterprise shipped spend-threshold alerts, Cursor added team-level dollar caps, GitHub Copilot added org spending limits. None of them will ever show you a number from a competitor's tool next to their own. That gap is exactly what teamspend fills, and it's why the tool grew from two admin-API adapters to six real ways to pull a cost number.

tokscaleis a genuinely good project: 4,700+ stars, tracks personal token usage across 40+ coding-agent tools with a leaderboard and contribution graph. Checking its last 100 issues turns up zero requests for team budgets, manager dashboards, or spend rollups, because that's not the product it's building. If what you want is a personal usage tracker across every AI CLI you use, use tokscale. teamspend exists for a different question, the one a team's budget owner asks, not the one an individual contributor asks.

codeburnis the closest thing to real competition teamspend has: free, local-first, and it already breaks cost down by model, project, and task across more tools than teamspend covers. If what you want is a personal, single-machine cost breakdown across a wide tool list, codeburn does that better than teamspend does. What it doesn't do is pull from a vendor's admin API to answer the team-level, before-after migration question, which is the one thing teamspend was built for.

Vantagealready ships live Cursor and Anthropic connectors as part of a broader cloud/SaaS/AI cost platform. If you're already consolidating your full cloud bill through Vantage, it's a solid choice and covers more ground than teamspend ever will. teamspend is for the narrower case: a lightweight, single-purpose tool for one migration decision, without adopting a full cost-management platform to get there.