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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.

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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.

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What you configure

SettingWhat it does
SensitivityHow sensitive the detection is. High catches smaller jumps (more alerts), Medium is balanced, Low only fires on extreme spikes.
ScopeWhat you want to watch — Organization, Team, individual User, or Per API Key. You can pick more than one.
ScheduleHow often to evaluate — hourly, daily, or weekly.
For organization-level scopes, you’ll see the options your role has access to.

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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.