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What this is for

FinOps is Guardway’s cost command center. It rolls up estimated USD spend across every gateway and pivots it by team, API key, provider and model — so you can answer “where is the bill coming from”, charge it back, find waste, set caps, and forecast the month without pulling a finance export. It replaces the old Dashboard Spend view; find it in the left nav at FinOps. Spend figures are estimates from hourly rollups, so they lag real time a little, and they are priced from Settings → Pricing. Requests the gateway couldn’t price are counted separately.

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Options

At the top of every tab you can set a time range — Month to date (default), Last month, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, or Last 90 days — and filter by gateway. FinOps has six tabs:

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Overview

The headline numbers for the selected range: total spend, how it trends over time, and the biggest contributors — a jump-off into the other tabs.

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Breakdown

Spend attributed across your dimensions — by team, API key, provider and model — so you can see exactly what each is costing.

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Chargeback

Spend grouped for internal chargeback, with CSV export so you can hand finance a per-team (or per-key) cost file.

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Waste

Cost you could remove: idle and over-provisioned API keys, plus a Guardrails avoided panel that estimates the spend your guardrails prevented by blocking or short-circuiting requests.

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Budgets & caps

Every API-key, team and organization budget with its spend so far, editable inline — change a cap on a row or add one with New cap. This is the same budget model documented in Budgets; see there for how each budget type resets and what happens when it’s hit.

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Forecast

Projections for the selected period: when a budget is on track to be crossed, and the projected month-close spend at the current run rate.

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How to configure

1

Open FinOps

Select FinOps in the left navigation. It opens on Overview for the current month.
2

Scope the view

Pick a time range and, if you run more than one gateway, the gateway filter.
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Drill in

Move through the tabs — Breakdown to attribute spend, Chargeback to export it, Waste to trim it, Budgets & caps to cap it, and Forecast to project it.

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Permissions

The Claude connector reads spend and sets budgets with the same scopes.
  • Budgets — how each budget type works and the alerts it sends.
  • Usage — request and token volume for the same traffic.
  • Settings → Pricing — the per-model prices spend is computed from.