> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.nops.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Tracking

> See daily AI spend and token volume by model and platform, then dig into any model or slice it in AI Explorer.

**Tracking** is the read-only view of what your AI actually costs: daily spend and token volume, broken down by model and by platform, with a per-model detail pane and a full Explorer scoped to AI spend.

<Note>
  Tracking needs no seat tracking project. It works as soon as an AI provider or cloud integration is sending spend.
</Note>

## Get started

1. Sign in to [nOps](https://clara.nops.io/dashboard).
2. In the sidebar, open **AI → Tracking**, or go to [clara.nops.io/ai-optimization/tracking](https://clara.nops.io/ai-optimization/tracking).
3. Pick a date range in the top right. The choice flows through every card, chart, and table on the page.

The page has up to two views, **Model Overview** and **AI Explorer**, shown as tabs. Each is enabled separately for your organization, so if only one is available you land on it directly with no tabs.

## Model Overview

### Model usage summary

Four cards summarize the selected period:

| Card               | What it shows                                                                |
| ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Total spend**    | Spend across all tracked models for the period.                              |
| **Total tokens**   | Token volume in the period.                                                  |
| **Models tracked** | How many models had usage, with a **Top** badge naming the leader by tokens. |
| **Platforms**      | How many platforms contributed, with their logos.                            |

If a platform is missing because you have not connected it yet, the **Platforms** card offers to connect it inline.

### Spend & budget by client

Model usage spend sits next to seat budget targets for the period. Expand a client row to see its projects and per-integration actuals. This is most useful if you manage several organizations.

### Charts

* **Daily model usage** — spend and token volume day by day across the period.
* **Platform token mix** — each provider's share of the period's token volume.

### Spend and tokens by model

The main table ranks models for the period:

| Column             | Meaning                                                              |
| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Model**          | The model name.                                                      |
| **Spend**          | Spend attributed to that model.                                      |
| **% of spend**     | Its share of the period's total.                                     |
| **Tokens**         | Token volume.                                                        |
| **\$ / 1M tokens** | Effective blended rate — the fastest way to spot an expensive model. |

Sort by **Spend** or **Tokens**, search by model or platform name, filter to a single platform with the tabs above the table, and use **Export CSV** to pull the filtered list out.

### Model details

Click any model to open a detail pane beside the table. It has five sections:

| Section         | What's in it                                         |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| **Overview**    | A daily spend chart and a **By platform** breakdown. |
| **Top users**   | Who drove the spend.                                 |
| **Variants**    | Spend split across the model's variants.             |
| **Token split** | Input, output, and cache read token mix.             |
| **Reasoning**   | Reasoning token usage.                               |

Drag the pane's left edge to widen it.

### Viewing several organizations

If you administer more than one organization, a **View usage for** selector appears next to the date filter. Choose **All portfolios** for a combined roll-up or pick a single organization. Organizations you do not administer are named in a notice below the header and excluded from the roll-up.

This is part of **Portfolio Portal** — see [Portfolio Portal](/portfolio/introduction) for the full picture, including how portfolios are set up and which pages currently support it.

## AI Explorer

**AI Explorer** (`?view=explorer`) is the full nOps [Explorer](/inform/explorer) pre-scoped to AI spend. Everything Explorer can do — grouping, filtering, charting, saving a report — works here, without you having to build the AI filter each time.

Use Model Overview to answer "where is the money going", and AI Explorer when you need a slice Model Overview does not offer.

## FAQs

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Which platforms show up here?">
    Any AI platform nOps has spend for, including your connected seat providers and model spend arriving through a cloud integration such as Amazon Bedrock.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Why do I only see one tab?">
    Model Overview and AI Explorer are enabled independently. When only one is on, the tab strip is hidden and that view fills the page.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How far back can I look?">
    Choose from the presets or set a custom range. Custom ranges are capped at roughly a year, so **Last 12 months** and **Year to date** both fit.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Does the date range persist if I share the URL?">
    Yes. The range is written to the URL, so a link reproduces exactly what you were looking at.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Related

* [AI overview](/ai/introduction)
* [Explorer](/inform/explorer)
* [Budgets](/ai/budgets)
* [Recommendations](/ai/recommendations)