AI Provider Accounts
Direct connections to LLM providers, so AI spend incurred outside the cloud bill is consolidated with the rest of the estate's AI cost.
At a glance
| Route | /ai-providers |
| Group | Admin |
| Page permission | overview |
What it is
Direct connections to large language model providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, and others — so that AI spend incurred outside the cloud bill is consolidated with the rest of the estate's AI cost and usage analytics.
Who it is for
Platform and finance teams at organisations whose AI spend is split between cloud-hosted services and direct provider accounts.
How it works
A provider admin key is registered and encrypted at rest, and the platform pulls usage and cost data on a schedule.
That data joins the AI cost ledger alongside cloud-hosted AI spend — so total AI cost is a single number rather than a reconciliation exercise across several billing portals.
Features
- Direct connections to OpenAI, Anthropic, and other LLM providers
- Encrypted admin key storage
- Scheduled usage and cost pull
- Consolidation with cloud-hosted AI spend in the AI cost ledger
- Feeds the same anomaly detection, guardrails, and model pricing comparison as cloud AI spend
How to use it
Create an admin or organisation-level API key with the provider
Scoped to usage reporting rather than inference — this connection reads billing data, it does not need to make model calls.
Register it here
It is encrypted before storage.
Confirm usage data is arriving
And reconciles against the provider's own billing portal.
Review consolidated AI spend in AI Infrastructure
Rather than per provider. See AI Infrastructure.
Set guardrails on total AI spend
Now that the total is actually complete.
Why it matters
AI spend is characteristically fragmented across cloud provider bills and several direct vendor accounts — which means most organisations cannot state their total AI cost without a manual reconciliation nobody performs monthly.
Consolidating direct provider spend into the same ledger makes the total available continuously, and makes it governable.
Do not confuse this with Apex AI Credits
This module tracks your direct spend with AI vendors.
Membership → Apex AI Credits meters the platform's own AI consumption on your behalf. Different ledgers, different questions.
Connects to
- Feeds AI Infrastructure
- Distinct from Membership → Apex AI Credits
Integrations
The external connection hub — issue tracking, chat alerting and approvals, source control, Kubernetes ingestion, remediation controls, and execution windows.
Identity & SSO
Enterprise identity federation — OIDC and SAML 2.0 single sign-on, and SCIM 2.0 automated user and group provisioning.