What is ATTRIBUT?
ATTRIBUT meters what you spend on AI coding tools and joins that spend to the work you actually shipped — so you see cost per merged pull request, per resolved ticket, or per outcome, instead of just a token count or a subscription bill.
It's built for individual developers who use AI coding agents and want a clear, evidence-backed answer to "was that AI spend worth it?"
The problem it solves
AI coding tools generate plenty of numbers — tokens used, dollars billed, sessions run — but none of them say what actually got built. Two developers can spend the same amount on AI and ship very different amounts of real work, and a token counter can't tell them apart. ATTRIBUT closes that gap by connecting your AI spend to the commits, pull requests, and tickets it helped produce.
How it works
ATTRIBUT works in three stages:
Connect — link the AI coding tools you use and the place your work lives, such as your source control, so ATTRIBUT can see both the spend and the shipped work. Setup for each tool is covered in our Connectors guides.
Join — ATTRIBUT ties every token you spent to the specific piece of work it helped produce, using inspectable evidence — deterministic session stamps and time-window math — rather than sampling or guesswork.
Prove — you get a cost figure per outcome, and every figure can be traced back to the sessions and tokens behind it.
What counts as an outcome
Instead of counting lines of code, ATTRIBUT looks at the structure of each AI session — never its content — and classifies the work into one of five kinds: creation, reduction, repair, understanding, or orchestration. Each kind is sized into expert-hours — the hours that work would have taken a human engineer — by its own formula, and scaled by whether the work actually landed, such as a pull request that got merged. ATTRIBUT reports this as a range with a confidence level, not a single false-precise number.
The privacy promise
ATTRIBUT never reads your code or your prompts. It only collects metered usage and metadata — things like token counts and which session touched which piece of work — never the content of what you wrote or asked. This holds on every plan, with nothing to opt into.
Who it's for
ATTRIBUT is for individual developers who want to know the return on their own AI coding spend, whether that's a flat monthly subscription or metered API usage, expressed as cost per outcome rather than cost per token.