开发机构称Claude Enterprise账单与仓库估算相差18%
据一则未经核实的Reddit用户自述,一家30人开发机构今年夏季从公司报销的Max套餐转向Claude Enterprise,账单增至约4倍。该机构使用OpenTelemetry按代码仓库追踪Claude Code成本,但上月估算与账单相差18%。发帖者称,差距主要来自全天通过聊天开展客户工作的项目经理,这部分工作不会被OpenTelemetry记录,此外还包括按标价估算的成本以及未设置git远端的会话。该机构还在试用tokenshift,因为其估算约三分之一的客户工作在Codex中完成,但称这无法解决账单核对问题。
这则个人案例具体展示了按代码仓库收集的OpenTelemetry遥测数据在企业AI费用与客户账单对账中可能遗漏哪些工作。
We’re a 30 person dev agency and moved everyone off expensed Max plans onto Claude Enterprise this summer. The bill went up about 4x, which we expected after reading the Team vs Enterprise threads here and pricing it in. What I didn’t think through is that every hour we work gets billed to a client and the admin console only knows people.
We turned on OTEL_METRICS_INCLUDE_REPOSITORY through managed settings and keep a sheet that maps each repo to a client. That gets us Claude Code cost per repo now. It never matches the invoice though. Last month the two were 18% apart and our finance lead sent the first client invoice back to me.
Most of that gap is the PMs, who do client work in chat all day and OTel never sees any of it. The rest is list price estimates and sessions where the dev never set a git remote and those get no repo at all. We’re also trialing tokenshift since about a third of our client work happens in Codex. That’s an estimate too and doesn’t fix the invoice side.
Other agencies on Enterprise, which number goes on your client invoices?
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