Top 5 Enterprise AI Gateways to Track Claude Code Costs

TL;DR Claude Code is powerful but expensive. It burns through tokens fast, and Anthropic does not give you a proper cost dashboard. AI gateways solve this by sitting between Claude Code and the provider, logging every request with cost, latency, and token data. This post covers the top 5 enterprise AI gateways you can use to track and control Claude Code costs: Bifrost, OpenRouter, Helicone, LiteLLM, and Cloudflare AI Gateway. Why Tracking Claude Code Costs Is Hard If you have been using Claude Code for a while, you already know the problem. It is fast, capable, and chews through tokens at a rate that can surprise you at the end of the month. Here is what makes cost tracking difficult: No native cost dashboard. Anthropic's billing page shows you total spend, but it does not break things down by session, task, or team member. Token-heavy workflows. Claude Code sends large context windows with every request. A single coding session can rack up thousands of input tokens before you even no