How to measure the ROI of AI coding tools
Full cost per engineer, active seats, one outcome metric, and cost per outcome by team.
Read the guide →AI spend and ROI
Is your AI spend paying off?
See what every AI dollar returns. Then move your spend to where it pays off.
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Is our AI spend paying off?
Mostly. Model API spend is tracking with shipped work. Two things stand out: 34 coding seats sat unused, and one support agent ran 3x its usual cost on Tuesday.
What should we do?
Reclaim the seats to free $1,360 a month, cap the agent, and put that money behind Platform. It ships a pull request for $37, your best return.
Total AI spend · this month
$34,100
Sample data
| Source | Monthly | Active use |
|---|---|---|
| Coding assistant seats | $9,600 | 86% |
| Chat assistant seats | $6,000 | 94% |
| Model APIs | $14,200 | n/a |
| Cloud AI services | $4,300 | n/a |
- 34 coding seats returned nothing this month.Cut · free $1,360/mo
- Platform has your lowest cost per PR.Invest here
01 · The investment
See the whole investment.
Everything you spend on AI, in one place. Today that is four bills and four dashboards.
- Coding assistants
- Chat seats
- LLM APIs
- Cloud AI
02 · Return
See what it returns.
Spend next to the work it produced, so you can prove AI ROI with numbers finance accepts.
| Team | AI spend | PRs merged | Cost per PR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | $11,400 | 310 | $37 |
| Growth | $9,200 | 205 | $45 |
| Support | $13,500 | 96 | $141 |
Sample data · Support costs 3x more per PR than the other teams
03 · Refocus
Put the money where it works.
DeltaV turns the numbers into four kinds of moves. You approve them. The spend follows the return.
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Cut
Cost with no return
Reclaim 34 seats nobody used. Frees $1,360 a month.
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Cap
Cost outrunning return
Hold the support agent to its normal budget.
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Shift
Same return for less
Move routine work to a cheaper model or plan.
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Invest
Return well above cost
Give Platform more seats. Lowest cost per PR in the company.
Sample data · You approve every move
Guides
Do it yourself first.
Two step-by-step guides to the method behind DeltaV.
How to track AI spend across seats, APIs, and cloud
Find every place you pay for AI, pull it into one schema, and attribute it to teams.
Read the guide →Working on this now?
We've built the cost engine. We're building the rest with three to four engineering and finance teams. Yours could be one.
Book 20 minutesor email partners@deltav.info
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