Your Claude Code Bill is Growing, here's How to Control It

TL;DR: Claude Code usage scales linearly with your team size but the costs don't stay linear. An unmonitored team of 20 developers can burn through lakhs per month in API costs without anyone noticing until the invoice arrives. Bifrost (open-source, Go, 11µs overhead) gives you per-developer budgets via virtual keys, real-time cost tracking, model routing to cheaper alternatives for simple tasks, and automatic failover; all without developers changing a single line of code. GitHub | Docs | Website The Cost Problem Nobody Budgets For Look, here's the thing. Claude Code is genuinely transformative for developer productivity. No argument there. But here's what happens when a team of 20 developers starts using it daily: No visibility. You have no idea who's spending what. Developer A might be running Claude Code on a massive monorepo refactor (₹15,000/day). Developer B might be using it for variable renaming (₹500/day). Both show up as one line item on the Anthropic invoice. No caps. There