--- title: 4 Levers to Take Control of Your AI Spend | daily.dev description: As AI vendors like GitHub Copilot and Anthropic shift to usage-based, per-token pricing, teams face unexpectedly high bills. Kilo, an AI coding platform,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/4-levers-to-take-control-of-your-ai-spend-4jowhv6wc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 4 Levers to Take Control of Your AI Spend | daily.dev og:description: As AI vendors like GitHub Copilot and Anthropic shift to usage-based, per-token pricing, teams face unexpectedly high bills. Kilo, an AI coding platform,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/4-levers-to-take-control-of-your-ai-spend-4jowhv6wc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4JOWhV6wc.png og:image:alt: 4 Levers to Take Control of Your AI Spend og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 4 Levers to Take Control of Your AI Spend **[Kilo Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/kilo-ai-blog)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary As AI vendors like GitHub Copilot and Anthropic shift to usage-based, per-token pricing, teams face unexpectedly high bills. Kilo, an AI coding platform, outlines four levers for controlling AI spend: choosing the right model for each task (with 500+ options and mid-session switching), using observability dashboards to track spend by model/project/user, governing team usage with pooled credits and model access controls, and optimizing developer time and token usage through parallel agents, codebase indexing, and orchestrative agent modes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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