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See where your AI spend is actually going.

Built for CFO · CTO

The vendor invoice tells you what you spent, not why. Engineers use Opus when Sonnet would do. Conversations sit open for days, re-paying for the same context every turn. Slides get regenerated five times for one-word edits. The waste lives in the request, not the route, and your vendor has no commercial reason to surface it.

Flowstate sits between user and model on every device, so the why becomes a chart.

Same task · two engineers · 281× cost delta
Request-level inspection
EA
Engineer A
via Cursor · Claude Opus 4
Wasteful
“Refactor auth middleware”
Turn 112k in / 3k out · $0.45
Turn 467k in / 6k out · $2.65
Turn 8182k in / 8k out · $7.21
Turn 12287k in / 9k out · $11.42
12 turns · 1.4M tokens $42.18
Conversation re-pays for full context on every turn.
EB
Engineer B
via Cursor · Claude Sonnet 4.5
Right-sized
“Refactor auth middleware”
Turn 18k in / 2k out · $0.04
Turn 210k in / 3k out · $0.06
Turn 311k in / 2k out · $0.05
DonePR opened
3 turns · 36k tokens $0.15
Both PRs merged. Same outcome.
The vendor invoice shows $42.33 across two engineers. The platform shows you why. Illustrative session · based on observed customer patterns

The waste is real. The research is published.

We’re smart, but others are smarter. The economics of agentic AI are now being studied empirically — and the numbers are wild.

30×
Variance between identical runs

“Runs on the same task can differ by up to 30x in total tokens.” Same prompt, same engineer, same model — thirty times the cost.

Bai et al., “How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money?” arXiv 2026 →
1.5M+
Extra tokens per task, model-to-model

“Kimi-K2 and Claude-Sonnet-4.5, on average, consume over 1.5 million more tokens than GPT-5” on identical SWE-bench tasks. Model choice is a cost decision.

Bai et al., arXiv 2026 →
Peaks early
Cost ≠ quality

“Higher token usage does not translate into higher accuracy; instead, accuracy often peaks at intermediate cost and saturates at higher costs.” The expensive runs aren’t the smart runs.

Bai et al., arXiv 2026 →

The vendor knows. The vendor has no commercial reason to tell you. Flowstate sees the same data they do — on your devices, in your seat, attributed to your projects.

See it on your data.

Book a demo and we’ll show you which prompts, which projects and which people are driving your AI line item — on your own data, inside a week.