Cost accountability
Attribute spend by agent, workflow, customer, and prompt version.
TraceIQ shows which product path burned budget, which owner should look, and whether the spend produced a successful task.
Cost-first agent observability for small teams
Know where your AI agent spend goes.
Trace every agent run from prompt to tool call to dollar. See per-agent, per-workflow, per-customer, and per-prompt-version cost attribution before runaway retries burn the month's budget.
Proof points: failed-run timelines, retry-cost attribution, and alert-to-trace inspection.
report-generator
customer: acme-ai / prompt v17
Cost
$12.30
top span
Task cost
$14.10
failed
Latency
8.2s
p95 breach
Retries
3
tool timeout
Prompt v17$0.42
CRM lookup3 retries
LLM rerank$12.30
Customeracme-ai
Outputfailed schema
budget alert preview
Alert when a workflow exceeds $5 per successful task or retries account for more than 30% of trace cost.
Why small teams try it
Runaway spend is an incident, not a billing surprise.
Retry waste
Catch retry loops and expensive spans before they normalize.
Inspect model calls, tool spans, retries, latency, token usage, and declared cost in one incident timeline.
Alert to trace
Move from budget spike to trace evidence in one click.
Start with a cost or latency finding, open the suspect run, and review the spans that explain the root cause.
3-minute demo script
Start with a bill spike, end with trace evidence.
The failed-run timeline is the proof, but cost accountability is the promise: which agent, workflow, customer, prompt version, model call, retry, or tool span burned budget.
- 1
Open the cost spike for the report-generator workflow.
- 2
Identify the top agent, customer, workflow, and prompt version behind the spike.
- 3
Open the suspect trace from the alert preview.
- 4
Inspect model, retrieval, tool, and retry spans in order.
- 5
Confirm the failed tool retry chain that drove spend and latency.
- 6
Send a sanitized trace through the current ingest API and omit raw prompts by default.
Positioning
Built beside your stack, not as another migration.
Ingest existing SDK, gateway, log, or OpenTelemetry-shaped data without requiring a proxy. Prompts and outputs can be omitted, redacted, or sampled with metadata-only mode.
Roadmap, not current claims
- Packaged SDKs and framework auto-instrumentation
- Live Slack, email, or PagerDuty delivery
- Provider-bill reconciliation and production self-serve billing
- Enterprise compliance, RBAC, audit logs, and full self-hosting
LangSmith
TraceIQ is the lightweight cost/accountability cockpit, not a full eval and prompt lifecycle suite.
Helicone
TraceIQ explains nested agent workflows and spans without requiring a gateway or proxy migration.
OpenTelemetry
TraceIQ packages opinionated cost and incident workflows instead of asking small teams to build dashboards.
Sentry
TraceIQ focuses on LLM and agent unit economics: retries, tokens, tool calls, and cost per task.
Pricing hypothesis
Hard caps and transparent usage limits.
Free
$0
10k spans/events, 7-day retention, 1 project, cost dashboard, and trace search.
Builder
$29/mo
100k events, 30-day retention, 3 projects, alert previews, and CSV export.
Team
$99-$199/mo
1M events, 90-day retention, unlimited seats, workflow/customer budgets, and incident reports.
Early access
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Best fit: AI-first startups, SMB SaaS teams, and agencies shipping production or near-production agents.