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AWSLive
AzureLive
GCPLive
SnowflakeLive
OCI
Oracle CloudSoon
IBM
IBM CloudSoon
ALI
Alibaba CloudSoon
DB
DatabricksLive
DO
DigitalOceanLive
CF
CloudflareSoon
LN
Linode/AkamaiSoon
HZ
HetznerSoon
VL
VultrSoon
OVH
OVHcloudSoon
WS
WasabiSoon
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Math Tests Passing

Total Cost of AI · 2026 reality

You spent $1M on AI last year.
Most FinOps tools only see one slice.

In 2026, total AI spend is three categories deep — cloud LLM tokens, redundant SaaS AI add-ons, and cross-cloud egress to feed the models. Most tools see only the first. CARTIE sees all three in one P&L.

40% tokens
30% SaaS
30% egress

Composition based on mid-market SaaS / AI-native company averages, Q1 2026. Your mix may differ — CARTIE measures all three for your tenant.

New · departmental chargebacks

One shared model. Five P&Ls.

Pass X-Cartie-Tenant: marketing on every proxy call. CARTIE splits the shared LLM bill into a per-department P&L for end-of-month chargebacks. No code changes — one HTTP header.

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30-SECOND WALKTHROUGH · LIVE

Watch CARTIE close a $612/day token leak in 47 seconds.

No screen-recording, no marketing video — this is the actual product loop running inline. Anomaly → AI explains → one-click fix → Slack closes the loop.

app.cartieai.com · live demo
monitoring · gpt-5.2 · /chat endpoint
Calls / hr
12,847
+8%
$ / hr
$1,184
+342%
p95 latency
740ms
+18%
Anomaly detected · 14:02 UTC
Token spend on /chat jumped 342% in the last hour.
cartie ai · causal analysis · 1.4s
Engine used
Cost-Bisect
Commit blamed
7f2a91d
Confidence
94%
recommended action · auto-approved by policy
Roll back temperature → 0.7 + add exponential backoff on 429s
Quality-preserving · zero customer impact · reversible
Savings recovered, live
$420/day
#finops · slack · just now
CARTIEAIAPP14:03
✅ Auto-applied fix for /chat retry storm.
Saved $612/day · $18,360 annualized.

…and the loop closes in 47 seconds, end-to-end.

01 · Anomaly Detected

Synthetic demo data. The real product runs on your bill. See pricing →

24 PROPRIETARY ENGINES · CARTIE-ONLY

The smart stuff under the hood.

Most FinOps tools are dashboards. We built 24 proprietary engines that do the math, the orchestration, and the explaining. Each addresses one of the 12 most-cited enterprise FinOps pain points — 8 of 12 where no one else has even tried.

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Proprietary engines
12 / 12
FinOps pains addressed
8 / 12
Uniquely dominant pillars
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Algorithms drafted
See all 24 proprietary engines
Plus head-to-head comparison vs Vantage / CloudHealth / Kubecost / Datadog / Helicone / Watershed.
NEW · SUB-SYSTEM Z · CARTIE-EXCLUSIVE

The first FinOps tool that signs a budget contract on every PR — before it merges.

Finance pre-signs quarterly envelopes per cost-center. Every PR is classified at code-time against the live envelope — before the resource is ever provisioned. No more "we'll true-up at quarter-end."

Built in direct response to advisor feedback: "Stop building dashboards. Build a tool that automates the negotiation between Finance and Engineering at code-level."

Green · Budget OK
< 80% utilization

Envelope has headroom — PR is cleared to merge with no Finance review. Contract snapshot signed automatically.

Yellow · Lead approval
80–100% utilization

Cost-center close to its quarterly cap. Team-lead must acknowledge before merge — Finance auto-notified.

Red · Re-envelope
> 100% utilization

Merge blocked. Structured renegotiation flow — engineer must justify with revenue + strategic-impact data. Finance signs new envelope.

budget_contract.json · auto-signed at merge
// Signed at merge time, immutable, audit-grade
{
  "commit_sha":      "7f2a91d…",
  "envelope":        "data-platform / Q1-2026",
  "envelope_version": "v3",
  "delta_per_month": +247.50,
  "band":            "GREEN",
  "utilization":     0.62,
  "reconcile_by":    "2026-03-31",
  "signed_by":       ["finance-bot", "eng-lead"]
}

Why this changes the conversation.

  • Finance stops chasing engineers — they pre-sign envelopes once a quarter and forget.
  • Engineers stop fighting tickets — green PRs merge instantly, no Finance back-and-forth.
  • Every merge emits an audit-grade signed contract. SOX, SOC 2, FedRAMP-friendly.
FREE TOOL · NO SIGN-UP

Know what your PR will cost before you merge it.

A free, public tool from CARTIEAI. Paste any terraform plan JSON and we'll show the exact monthly $ impact, resource by resource, in about two seconds. No account, no API keys, nothing to install.

  • Free, forever — for individual engineers and open-source teams
  • Honest pricing — EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, Lambda, NAT, EBS & S3 from the latest us-east-1 snapshot. We tell you when we can't price something instead of guessing.
  • One-click PR comment — copy as Markdown, paste into any GitHub PR. Your reviewers thank you.
  • 10-line GitHub Actions snippet — wire it into your repo's CI in 60 seconds and every PR gets a cost comment automatically. No app to install, no secrets to share.

Want the guided product tour with seeded data instead? Use the Live Demo button up top — it signs you into a fully populated dashboard in one click.

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on PR #482 · feat: scale analytics db

+$1.2K/mo

Heads-up: this PR adds $1,247.40/mo in cloud cost ($14,968.80/year)

aws_db_instance.analytics+$561.12
aws_instance.api_worker+$496.40
aws_elasticache_cluster.redis+$648.24
aws_instance.legacy_batch-$280.32

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