The text outlines the challenges and solutions related to managing the costs of foundation models, particularly as AI adoption increases and teams utilize complex models like Anthropic's Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet. As organizations face difficulties in tracking and controlling AI-related expenditures, Datadog's Cloud Cost Management (CCM) offers a solution by integrating with Anthropic's Usage and Cost Admin API to provide detailed insights into Claude usage and costs. This integration helps organizations allocate costs more effectively, allows engineers to manage spending, and optimizes usage by normalizing data in a unified format, thus enhancing visibility and accountability. The system includes features like monitoring, alerting for cost anomalies, and aligning usage with service ownership, all of which facilitate informed decision-making and improved cost governance. Additionally, by correlating Claude usage data with broader infrastructure metrics and application performance, Datadog enables organizations to address inefficiencies and optimize their AI investments seamlessly within existing workflows.