AI Budget Control
Larridin Launches New Tool to Bring Clarity to Enterprise AI Spending and ROI
Enterprise AI spending has surged 13x in six months, and most companies have no idea where the money is going. Larridin, Inc. launched Token Spend & Insights™ on June 23, 2026, to fix that — giving finance teams a way to trace every AI token back to a specific team, tool, or workflow. Business Wire reported the announcement.
The launch comes at a breaking point. One unnamed company received a $500 million bill for a single month of Anthropic Claude usage, according to Axios. Uber blew its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months before capping spending at $1,500 per employee per month, TNW reported. Global AI spending is on track to hit $2.59 trillion by end of 2026, per Gartner.
A $500 Million Bill Nobody Saw Coming
The crisis has a root cause: AI vendors shifted from flat subscription pricing to usage-based token pricing in late 2025. Agentic AI systems — bots that run autonomously for hours — began racking up costs with no guardrails in place. The result was a wave of
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