# Billing enhancements **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [October 1, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/billing-enhancements/4764 "2025-10-01T10:29:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msusta-valka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@msusta-valka](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/msusta-valka)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/billing-enhancements/4764/1 "2025-10-01T10:29:48Z")
Currently the billing setup for Lambda public cloud is extremely oversimplified. I like the ease of use, however that should not mean there’s not even basic billing functionality. Primary issue is missing billing alerts / budgets / anything to control the spend. Point above seems to be connected to missing billing API - I’d be grateful even for single read-only endpoint to report on currently outstanding balance which I can automate around. Right now the only possibility is to create a full user account and drive this with web automation? I tried hitting the `https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/usage` but it doesn’t seem to work with API key. ---
**Author:** ![hayden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/91b2a8/32.png) [@hayden](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/hayden)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/billing-enhancements/4764/2 "2025-10-01T22:40:49Z")
Hi @msusta-valka Thank you for sharing this. We understand the billing management is currently pretty bare-bones, and we’re actively exploring adding more controls, including better ways to monitor and manage spend. Improving billing functionality is a key focus for us. I have forwarded your feedback internally. Let us know if there’s anything else we could assist you with. We’re happy to help. Best, Hayden ---
**Author:** ![WillDennis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/deeptalk.lambda.ai/willdennis/32/786_2.png) [@WillDennis](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/WillDennis)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/billing-enhancements/4764/3 "2025-10-20T14:43:30Z")
Another customer vote for this, as well as putting the account number (Team ID) on the billing statements. ---
**Author:** ![msusta-valka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@msusta-valka](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/msusta-valka)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/billing-enhancements/4764/4 "2025-10-27T16:48:43Z")
And another one for the reporting - since it looks like you’ll be cooking this from the scratch, please consider using FOCUS data format right away so that people can just tie it into existing tools for all cloud platforms 🙂