Anomalous spend watches your usage against your own historical pattern and alerts you when spending jumps in a way that doesn’t look like business as usual. It’s the alert you want when you’re worried about runaway costs you wouldn’t catch with a fixed dollar threshold, because what “high” looks like depends on how much you normally spend.
When to use it
- A team or key suddenly spending several times what it usually does on a given day.
- Catching unexpected cost spikes before they show up on the next invoice.
- An early signal that something has changed in your traffic: a deployed bug, a runaway loop, a misconfigured client.
This alert needs a few weeks of consistent usage to learn what “normal” looks like. Very new accounts and accounts with highly irregular usage aren’t a good fit. Pair them with low balance instead.
For organization-level scopes, you’ll see the options your role has access to.
How you’re notified
Email and/or SMS, based on your preferences in Settings → Notifications. See the alerts overview for delivery details and cooldown behavior. Last modified on August 18, 2026
