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Where Vantage beats us — and why teams switch anyway

Pay 60% less for AI tokens.Without changing a line of code.

Drop CARTIE in front of OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, Mistral — any model. Same prompt. Same answer. 60% fewer tokens.

Prompt compaction, semantic cache, and model cascade — running automatically on every call.Pay less, ship more.

+ Financial OS for your cloud bill · Bill Detective names the engineer, the commit, and the PR behind every cloud cost spike — so cost finally becomes accountable.

Plugs into GitHub, Slack, and the tools your team already uses. No new dashboards to learn.

🤝 Contractually-binding pledge

3× return on your subscription in 90 days — or a full refund.

No "we tried our best." A contract. Read the 90-day refund contract →

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Total Cost of AI · 2026 reality

Your AI bill isn't one number. It's three.

Cloud LLM tokens · redundant SaaS AI · cross-cloud egress. We measure all three for your tenant.

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6 live · 9 integrating · read-only · 2-min setup

One dashboard for every cloud you use.

Native, deep integrations — not surface-level scrapes. The right API per provider · credentials never stored.

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AWS

Cost Explorer + CUR. EC2 / RDS / S3 / Lambda / NAT / EBS rightsizing. Spot intelligence. RI & Savings Plan optimizer.

Cost Explorer · CUR · RI/SP
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Azure

Cost Management API + CSV ingestion. Hybrid Benefit, RI optimizer, regional drift, subscription rollup.

Cost Mgmt API · Hybrid Benefit
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Google Cloud

BigQuery billing export. CUDs / sustained-use optimization. Per-project / per-folder roll-up & forecasting.

Billing Export · CUD optimizer
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Snowflake

Account Usage queries. Warehouse rightsizing, auto-suspend tuning, query-cost attribution, materialized-view ROI.

Warehouse · Auto-suspend · MV ROI
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Databricks

Cluster rightsize, Photon ROI, spot policy, autoscaling tuning, job-level cost attribution.

Cluster rightsize · Photon ROI
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DigitalOcean

Droplet, App Platform, K8s & Spaces cost analysis. Idle droplet hunter + reserved IP cleanup.

Droplet · K8s · Idle hunter
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Monte-Carlo Shapley attribution across namespaces. Idle pod hunter, request/limit drift, cost-fair chargebacks.

Shapley · Idle pods · Chargebacks
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Oracle Cloud

OCI cost analytics, Exadata pricing optimization, autonomous DB rightsizing. Production roll-out post-May 2026 launch.

OCI · Exadata · Autonomous
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IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud Pak, Watson cost tracking, hybrid mainframe + cloud cost reconciliation. Integration queued.

Cloud Pak · Watson · Mainframe
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Alibaba Cloud

Aliyun ECS, MaxCompute, OSS cost attribution. APAC-region optimization. Integration queued behind May launch.

ECS · MaxCompute · OSS
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Cloudflare

Workers, R2 storage, CDN egress cost tracking. Per-zone attribution. Replace S3 with R2 ROI calculator.

Workers · R2 · CDN egress
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Akamai Cloud Computing (formerly Linode), Object Storage, edge compute cost analysis.

Compute · Storage · Edge
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EU-region cloud servers, object storage, dedicated hardware cost tracking. Per-€ optimization.

Cloud · Storage · Dedicated
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The math that runs the savings.

Click any engine to drill in.

Complete coverage · 8 pillars · 70+ surfaces

The whole FinOps stack in one tool.

Replace 9 vendors (Vantage + CloudHealth + CloudZero + Kubecost + Helicone + Datadog + Watershed + Spot.io + IBM Turbonomic). Every pillar below is a real, in-product surface — not a roadmap promise.

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AI / LLM Suite

Token leaks fixed, prompts compacted, every model routed

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AI / LLM Suite

  • Token Intelligence Suite
  • Semantic Cache (real embeddings)
  • Prompt Compactor
  • LLM Proxy + Smart Router
  • Prompt Playground
  • Eval Runner + QA Failover
  • Fine-Tuning ROI
  • "Why?" explainer
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Anomaly & Causality

Spot the spike, trace the cause, show the receipt

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Anomaly & Causality

  • Anomaly Detection v2 + Auto-resolve
  • Spike Autopsy
  • Invoice Autopsy
  • Causal FinOps Bot
  • Cost Bisect (git-bisect for $)
  • Token Leak Detector
  • Bill Shock Prevention
  • Spend Freeze (emergency stop)
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Cloud Cost

Every cloud, every commitment, every zombie pod

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  • RI/SP Commitment Coach
  • Zombie Killer
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  • Resource Scheduler
  • One-Click Fix + Auto-PR
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Carbon & ESG

Ship cheaper code that also costs the planet less

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Carbon & ESG

  • Carbon Cost Pareto
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  • Region × CO₂ optimizer
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Tags & Compliance

SOC 2-clean tags, evidence on tap

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Tags & Compliance

  • Smart Tag Fixer
  • Tag Canon · Tag Drift
  • Compliance Mapper (SOC 2 / ISO)
  • Algorithm Correctness manifest
  • SOC 2 Readiness
  • Audit Export
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CFO Tools

Board decks, vendor intel, chargebacks — without Apptio

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CFO Tools

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  • Customer P&L · Unit Econ
  • Cost Scorecard (gamified)
  • Cost Allocation · Cost Centers
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Forecasting & Simulation

See tomorrow's bill before today's deploy

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Forecasting & Simulation

  • Cost Forecasting + Forward Predict
  • Decision Simulator
  • What-If Calculator
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  • Egress Predictor
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Notifications & Surfaces

Slack, IDE, terminal, MCP — meets engineers where they live

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  • Voice Assistant
  • VS Code extension
  • npm CLI · MCP server
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  • Custom Dashboard Builder
  • Setup in 15 minutes
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Built to replace 9 single-purpose vendors. One subscription, one login, one unified P&L. Migration wizards for Vantage · CloudHealth · CloudZero · Kubecost · Spot.io included.

$ developer quickstart

Install in
five lines.

Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Identical SDK, identical response shape. Change one URL, get token observability, semantic cache, prompt compaction, and cross-cloud arbitrage — for free, on the way to the model.

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from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.cartieai.com/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["CARTIE_KEY"]
)

# Identical OpenAI API. We route, cache, compact, audit.
resp = client.chat.completions.create(model="gpt-5.2", messages=msgs)
$
base_url = where every request flows
api_key = your tenant + budget envelope
everything else = your existing code
ROI calculator · contractually binding

See your savings in 30 seconds.

The math is public, the percentages are conservative, the pledge is contractual. If we don't hit 3× ROI in 90 days, every dollar back.

Your monthly spend

32.0× ROI

Your projected savings

$768K

in the first 12 months

Cloud waste recovered (22%)$33,000/mo
LLM tokens saved (35%)$28,000/mo
Tool consolidation$3,003/mo
Net annual savings (after $1,997/mo)$744K

Percentages from 47 pilot tenants, May 2025–Apr 2026. Conservative midpoints used. Your actual savings may be higher.

No spam, no sales calls. One email with your custom report. If you want to talk after that, you'll reply yourself.

The most transparent pricing in FinOps

$0 upfront. 25% of verified savings.

We only get paid if we actually save you money — and we guarantee 3× ROI or your money back. Move the sliders to see your real net.

$0 upfront
No setup fee. No annual minimum. We earn it monthly.
25% of verified savings
Only verified, customer-confirmed savings count toward the bill.
3× ROI guarantee
If 12-month savings < 3× our fee → full refund. Period.

Your numbers

$50,000/mo
$5K$500K
22%
5%40%
Your net
$8,250/mo
$99,000 per year
  • Total savings found$11,000/mo
  • CARTIE keeps (25%)$2,750/mo
  • Your ROI multiple4.0×

Calculator uses your live inputs. Contract enforces this math word-for-word. Backed by a 14-day shadow-mode replay if any savings are disputed.

Causal attribution · spike → code in 11 seconds

We don't just show the spike — we point to the line.

Every other FinOps tool tells you "you spent $10k on tokens." CARTIE tells you "you spent $10k because of line 42 in stream.py" — and writes the fix as a PR.

14:32 UTC

Cost spike detected

OpenAI bill jumped 4.7× in 14 minutes

+$1,847

14:32:09 UTC

Causal Bot traces the source

847 nearly-identical prompts from one process. Pattern: recursive completion loop.

99.7% confidence

14:32:11 UTC

Line of code identified

app/api/v1/stream.py · L42

Auto-PR ready

github.com/your-org/api · pull/2847
# app/api/v1/stream.py · line 42
async def stream_response(prompt: str, depth: int = 0):
    response = await client.chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4o",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
    )
    text = response.choices[0].message.content
    # ❌ CARTIE FOUND: no depth check — recursion has no exit condition
    if "follow-up" in text.lower():
        return await stream_response(text, depth + 1)  # ← burns $1,847
    return text
CARTIE PR #2847 · 94% confidence · auto-mergeableview full PR
See more autopsy examples → token leaks, idle GPUs, recursive loops

Sample data shown. On your account, every spike links to your actual GitHub commit + your engineer who owns the file.

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CLI & MCP server · live on npm
$ npm install -g @cartieai/cli

Plugs into Claude Desktop & Cursor as an MCP server. Ask cartie why for any cost spike.

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