How to Track and Control Team Token Spend
Perplexity, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
Perplexity explains what drives team token spend and offers practical ways to track and reduce AI costs.
Perplexity defines token spend as the volume of AI text a team processes and its cost, separating input, output and reasoning tokens.
Subscription users usually track credits, while API users can review token counts by type in billing reports.
The post says spend is rising because agents make many sequential requests, reasoning models generate hidden thinking and AI adoption is spreading.
To cut costs, it suggests shorter conversations, summarized documents, clearer first requests, smaller models for simple tasks and piloting workflows with budgets and auto-refill turned off.