The new product combines spend dashboards, employee identity data and an AI gateway to govern model use and tie token costs to productivity after Rippling's own AI spending surged.
Rippling has launched AI Spend Console, a product designed to show AI spending by model, department, team and employee, enforce token-spend and model-access policies, and route prompts to more cost-effective models through an AI gateway. The company said the product connects usage data from tools such as Claude, Cursor, Codex, OpenAI and Anthropic with employee identity and business data via Rippling Data Cloud and its Employee Graph, helping leaders measure outputs such as pull requests, code velocity, revenue contributed and other productivity signals. Rippling said the launch followed an internal review in March that found it was on track to spend 40% of its R&D headcount budget on AI tokens, with spending rising 80% month over month; it said the new controls helped cut token costs to about 15% of that budget while usage later returned to roughly 600 billion tokens. Customers can join a waitlist starting today, and Rippling said the product can also be bought as a stand-alone offering with additional AI usage-based costs.