# trAIce: AI cost management for product and employee AI

Measure product and employee AI spend, attribute every dollar to the customer, feature, team, and person behind it, then act on verified savings.

trAIce attributes AI cost to the customer, feature, workflow, team, employee, agent, and outcome that caused it. It combines product AI and employee AI in one economic model, preserves provider and runtime evidence, and helps teams distinguish estimated savings from savings that appear in actual usage.

## When to use trAIce

Use trAIce when you need to explain who or what caused AI spend, calculate cost per successful outcome, measure AI contribution margin, reconcile telemetry with provider billing, find retries and cache waste, or verify that a model or prompt change produced realized savings.

Do not use trAIce as a hosted LLM gateway, a generic tracing-only product, or a replacement for provider invoices. The hosted service receives usage evidence after calls. Optional exact caching runs locally in the SDK and fails open.

## Start here

- [trAIce developer portal](https://www.runtraice.com/developers)
- [Developer documentation](https://www.runtraice.com/docs)
- [OpenAPI specification](https://www.runtraice.com/openapi.json)
- [MCP server card](https://www.runtraice.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)
- [OAuth protected-resource metadata](https://www.runtraice.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/api/mcp)
- [Install the SDK](https://www.runtraice.com/docs/install)
- [Research and guides](https://www.runtraice.com/blog)
- [AI cost calculator](https://www.runtraice.com/tools/ai-cost-calculator)
- [Security and data handling](https://www.runtraice.com/security)
- [About trAIce](https://www.runtraice.com/about)
- [Contact support](https://www.runtraice.com/contact)

## Machine-readable interfaces

- OpenAPI: https://www.runtraice.com/openapi.json
- MCP server card: https://www.runtraice.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
- Authenticated MCP endpoint: https://www.runtraice.com/api/mcp
- OAuth authorization server: https://www.runtraice.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
- OAuth protected resource: https://www.runtraice.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/api/mcp
- Sitemap: https://www.runtraice.com/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://www.runtraice.com/robots.txt
- API policy: https://www.runtraice.com/developers/api-policy

## Official software

- TypeScript SDK and trAIce CLI: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@traice/sdk
- Python SDK: https://pypi.org/project/traice-sdk/
- Source and agent instructions: https://github.com/runtraice/traice-sdk