Manage costs

This guide explores tools and processes for monitoring and controlling your organization's expenses. By focusing on credit usage tracking, detailed cost inspection, and the strategic management of credits, you'll discover how to optimize budget allocation and ensure financial efficiency within your projects.

Manage spend

This section describes tools to manage and understand credit usage in the organization.

Set a budget

Transfer credits to a teamspace to set a budget. Teamspace members will only be able to spend the amount of credits in the teamspace. The teamspace credits are shown at the top right of the teamspace page.

Track credit usage

Visit Org settings > Activity to monitor organization costs. This section shows a summary of usage activities and financial transactions, including spending and obtaining credits. The initial chart provides an overview, followed by detailed transaction lists.

Inspect transactions

For more information on any transaction, click it in the list. This action reveals specifics such as machine types, usage duration, and more, enhancing your visibility into how resources are consumed.

Manage credits

This section describes how to add and move credits in the organization.

Set credits auto-reload

Production workloads that absolutely cannot experience down-time typically require careful monitoring of the credits remaining and periodic transfers. This is manual and error-prone. On Lightning AI, you can set it and forget it by enabling auto-reload. When your credits dip below a threshold of your choosing, we'll automatically purchase more or fund the teamspace you specify to ensure that your workloads never go down.

Automatically replenish an Org credit balance from the credit card on file when it falls below a specified "Threshold".

To enable an Org credits auto-reload, navigate to Organization > Billing, and switch "Auto-reload credits" ON. You can then edit the "Reload amount" and "Threshold", or use the default values. "Auto-reload credits" setting is disabled for Organizations by default.

Only organization admins can enable and edit this setting.

Add credits

Navigate to Organization > Activity and click Add credits. Follow the top up steps which will add credits to the organization. From there, transfer to the appropriate teamspaces.

Transfer credits

To transfer credits between organization and any teamspace select the organization as the source and the teamspace as the destination.