Drivetrain launches native connectors to Anthropic and OpenAI

Every generation of technology creates a new challenge for finance.

Twenty years ago, it was cloud infrastructure. Fifteen years ago, it was SaaS. Finance teams had to learn how to track, forecast, and govern entirely new categories of spend that didn't fit traditional budgeting models.

Today, AI is creating the next major shift.

Organizations are embedding AI into software development, customer support, operations, research, content creation, and countless internal workflows.

The worldwide AI spending is forecasted to reach $2.59 trillion in 2026. But unlike SaaS or cloud infrastructure, AI introduces a highly variable, consumption-based cost model that changes every day.

AI spend is provisioned by engineers, product teams, and increasingly every department across the company. The result is that finance often sees AI spend only after receiving an invoice. By then, it's too late to influence the outcome.

Over the past few months, I've spoken with hundreds of CFOs and finance leaders who are all asking variations of the same question:

"We're spending more on AI every month. How do we know where it's going, who's using it, and whether it's actually creating value?"

According to one source, 1/4th of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs. The rest are operating with limited visibility, making it difficult to forecast spending, assign ownership, or evaluate return on investment. It feels like someone handed an employee a credit card and they're out there mining bitcoins. Only once you can see the spending data clearly by API key and team can you actually manage it.

That's why today we're launching native connectors for Anthropic and OpenAI — the first connectors of their kind in an FP&A platform.

How Drivetrain helps you see and govern AI costs

As AI becomes embedded across every function of the business, the organizations that succeed will be the ones with the clearest understanding of where their AI dollars are going, who's accountable for them, and what they're delivering in return.

With Drivetrain, finance teams can bring AI consumption and cost data from Anthropic and OpenAI directly into their planning environment. This includes API key costs, token usage, Claude Code and Codex activity, message volume, cost reports, users, and workspaces — all connected to the budgets and forecasts already built in Drivetrain.

Organizations can attribute AI costs by API key, team, department, workspace, user, and model, giving every dollar spent a clear owner. This allows finance teams to monitor consumption trends, understand what is driving costs, and incorporate AI spend directly into forecasts before it becomes a budget variance.

More importantly, leadership teams can move beyond simply tracking AI costs and quantifying the seemingly elusive ROI of AI.

You can’t fix what you can’t see

If you're already a Drivetrain customer, contact your Customer Success Manager to get started. Setup is straight-forward. All you'll need is access to your Drivetrain tenant and the admin API key for your Anthropic or OpenAI environment.

If you’re not a customer yet, but curious about AI and what it can do for your FP&A, let’s talk.