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Know what AI costs. See what you get back.

Understand spending, share budgets and connect AI use to the work it supports.

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Buy tokens, rent GPUs, or own the rack?

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Turn a $3m AI bill into $1.9m

Most teams overpay for AI twice without noticing: they run everything through the default flagship model, and they buy the tokens on a metered plan they can't see into. An intelligent proxy fixes both. Here is the maths, a calculator you can drag, and where Flowstate fits.

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Understand AI spending and value

See where the budget goes and what the business gets back.

Share one AI budget across your tools

Fund people, teams and projects across connected services.

Give your team more capacity

Reduce the preparation, checking and follow-up around recurring work.

Connect AI use to delivered work

Follow AI activity into projects, code and business results.
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Connect the OpenAI Platform API

Connect the OpenAI Platform API to see which people and models use it, and what each OpenAI project costs.

You need access to connect AI providers. Ask your Flowstate admin.

Before you start

  • An organisation owner in OpenAI. Only owners can create admin keys.

Connect OpenAI

  1. In OpenAI, open Settings → Organization → Admin keys and create a key.
  2. Copy it straight away. It’s only shown once.
  3. In Flowstate, go to Settings → Integrations, select Browse catalog and open OpenAI Platform API.
  4. Under How to connect, select Use this route.
  5. Paste the key and select Verify and connect.

Check it’s working

The key is listed under Connected keys with the status Working, and Data through shows a recent date. See the spend in Agent insights.

What Flowstate brings in

  • Token usage per person and per model, each day.
  • Billed cost per OpenAI project and line item, each day. OpenAI doesn’t report cost per person.
  • Flowstate syncs every hour, and brings in your history when you first connect.

If something’s not right

The connection shows Key rejected. The key was revoked or replaced in OpenAI. Create a new admin key and select Replace key on the connection. Your history stays.

ChatGPT seat costs are missing. This connection only covers the API.

Usage isn’t shown against someone. Their OpenAI email doesn’t match anyone in Flowstate. Add them or correct their email, or match them by hand under Settings → Integrations → User attribution.