For IT, AI, Engineering & Finance Leaders

Find out what
AI is costing you

From $20 employee subscriptions to model and token consumption — every AI user, tool, and dollar in one view.

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot
Model and token consumption
Shadow AI discovery
controlpanel.nicklpass.com
Nicklpass control panel showing AI applications, users, and spend
The Problem

AI spend arrived faster than anyone could track it

Seats bought on personal cards. API keys issued for a prototype and never revoked. Four tools doing the same job in three departments. The bill is the first honest signal most companies get.

How AI spend actually behaves
2x

sources of AI cost: per-seat subscriptions and per-token usage

30%

typical savings once duplicates and idle seats are removed

Based on Nicklpass customer deployments

A subscription has a ceiling. Token spend does not, and it grows quietly.

Least used AI applications ranked by spend in Nicklpass
What You Get

Subscriptions, consumption, and sprawl in one place

Nicklpass reads AI the way it reads the rest of your stack: who has it, who uses it, and what it costs.

Seat spend is what you signed for. Token spend is what your systems decided to spend. You need both in the same view.

01

AI tool usage

Adoption across the AI applications your teams have adopted, approved or not.

Discover AI applications used across the organization
Track active AI users by application
Measure adoption by user, team, and department
Monitor ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and other AI tools
AI application adoption by user and team
02

AI token and model usage

What your APIs, agents, and integrations actually consume.

Track API and model consumption by provider
Measure input and output token usage
Monitor AI cost by user, team, model, and provider
Detect unexpected consumption spikes before the invoice
Token and model consumption trends in Nicklpass
03

Shadow AI and consolidation

The accounts nobody registered, and the overlap nobody priced.

Surface shadow AI running outside approved environments
Compare licensed AI seats with actual usage
Identify unused and underused AI subscriptions
Find duplicate subscriptions and overlapping tools
Compare adoption and cost across AI providers
Use real consumption data to guide consolidation and renewals
Duplicate and underused AI subscriptions flagged in Nicklpass
How It Works

Connect once, then watch both halves of the AI bill

Nicklpass does not sit in the request path. It reads spend, identity, and activity, and reports on them.

01

Connect finance

Link bank, card, and QuickBooks so AI charges resolve to real vendors, including tools bought on personal cards and reimbursed later.

PlaidQuickBooks
02

Connect your workspace

Sync users and discover which AI applications people have authorized with their work accounts.

Google WorkspaceMicrosoft 365
03

Add usage signal

The browser extension shows which AI tools are opened day to day, and provider connections bring in model and token consumption.

Browser ExtensionAI providers
AI spend
Plaid Connected
Card and bank charges resolved to AI vendors, including personal-card purchases.
Manage
QuickBooks
Import expenses and reimbursements to catch AI bought outside procurement.
Connect
AI adoption
Google Workspace Connected
Discover AI applications authorized with company Google accounts.
Import
Browser extension Connected
Which AI tools people actually open, at domain level only.
Force install
Model and token consumption
AI providers
Model, API, and token consumption with cost by team, model, and provider.
Connect

An AI initiative that pays for itself

Nicklpass agents flag the AI tool someone bought on a personal card, the workspace seat that has gone unused since the pilot, and the integration whose token spend doubled last week. Every action is logged with the dollars it returned.

The Result

Know who uses AI, what they use, and what it costs

Enough detail to consolidate on purpose instead of canceling on instinct.

Discoverevery AI tool in the company, approved or not
Measureadoption by user, team, and department
Trackinput and output tokens by model and provider
Catchconsumption spikes before they reach the invoice
Mergeduplicate accounts into one governed plan
Comparecost and adoption across AI providers
Where AI usage differs from SaaS usage

A SaaS seat costs the same whether it is used once or a thousand times. AI does not. A single agent, integration, or batch job can move the bill more in a week than a whole department of subscriptions does in a year, which is why seat adoption and token consumption belong in the same view rather than in two different reports.

Questions

Straight answers

Do you read prompts or model outputs?

No. Nicklpass measures consumption and cost: which tools are used, by whom, how often, and how many tokens against which model. Prompt and response content is never collected.

Can you find AI bought on a personal card?

Often, yes. Charges that come through connected finance accounts or expense reimbursements resolve to the vendor behind them, which is how most unregistered AI subscriptions surface.

What counts as shadow AI here?

Any AI tool in use outside your approved, managed environment. That includes free-tier accounts on work email, personal subscriptions used for work, and API keys issued during a pilot that were never revoked.

Will this slow down our engineers?

No. Nicklpass reports on consumption, it does not sit between your applications and the model provider. Nothing is proxied and nothing is rate limited by us.

Can we set limits on token spend?

You can monitor consumption by user, team, model, and provider, and get alerted on unexpected spikes. Hard caps are enforced at the provider, and Nicklpass tells you when and where to set them.

Standing up AI governance across the company?

Talk to sales about provider connections, department-level consumption reporting, and rolling AI seats into governed enterprise workspaces.

Up to
30%

average savings on subscription spend

Once AI adoption and consumption sit next to each other, consolidation stops being a guess. Most teams find duplicate tools and idle AI seats in the first month.