Live LLM cost, and the proof behind the savings.
Tidal Telemetry shows what your LLMs cost, live, by provider, model, feature, team and workflow. In an engagement it is the evidence behind your monthly savings statement. It is free during beta: sign up and create up to three projects per account, with no card needed.
What it is
Hosted LLM observability. You install the SDK, call tidal.init(), and every model call your application makes starts arriving as a trace: model, token counts in and out, an estimated cost per call, latency, errors.
- One line, roughly 50 libraries. Auto-instrumentation covers OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Bedrock, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases and the common agent frameworks.
- Standard OpenTelemetry, so the SDK is optional. Ingest is plain OTLP over HTTPS with a bearer token. Point any OpenTelemetry exporter at your project endpoint and it behaves identically. The SDK is a thin wrapper over the Apache-licensed OpenLIT SDK.
- Isolated per-project storage. Each project gets its own database and its own ingest key, enforced at the storage layer rather than by a filter in a query.
- An MCP server. Claude and other agents can check your setup, send a test trace and pull usage reports, which is a faster debugging loop than reading a dashboard.
Python gets the one-line install. Anything that speaks OpenTelemetry can export directly.
What it costs
Nothing during the trial, and nothing extra in an engagement: Tidal Telemetry is included in the flat 20% of verified savings. That is the actual state of it rather than a launch offer with a countdown attached.
How it relates to the service
Tidal Telemetry is one of three products in the Tidal family. Tidal Audit is the free, read-only first look at your invoices and usage logs. Tidal Gateway is the LiteLLM gateway we deploy and operate in your cloud to make the savings and keep them. Tidal Telemetry is the live view that proves them.
- Included in an engagement. We charge a flat 20% of verified savings, with Telemetry and Gateway operations included. No separate licence, no minimum.
- You can use Telemetry on its own. Free beta signup does not require buying an audit or consulting service.
- The fee still comes from your invoices. A consultant who also owns the meter has an obvious problem, so the baseline behind every fee is locked against raw provider invoices, and Telemetry is the live evidence on top of that, not the source of the number.