See Your Spending. Shape Your Strategy.
Reduce network spend and grow revenue with real-time, automated cost intelligence.
See how connectivity and traffic delivery costs are impacting your bottom line in real time.
Automatically analyze cost attribution and optimize ROI with real-time analysis of performance and spend.
Use insights to negotiate stronger, price confidently, and optimize traffic engineering for greater profitability.
Automate connectivity spend tracking
Know exactly what you’re paying – and to whom.
- Gain real-time visibility into what you’re spending on network connectivity across your entire infrastructure.
- Unify and normalize bandwidth contracts and pricing models across transit, peering, IXes, PNIs, and more.
- Track spend by provider, connectivity type, site, and market.
- Validate invoices, uncover errors, forecast costs, and monitor trends.
See what traffic is driving global spend
Understand not just what you’re spending – but why.
- Effortlessly link connectivity costs to ASNs, CDNs, OTTs, geographies, customers, and services with enriched traffic data.
- Gain clarity on effective cost per Mbps, including ingress and egress paths and contributions from each route and interconnect.
- Save snapshots and automate monthly tracking to spot trends.
Drive optimization strategies with cost intelligence
- Wholesale providers: Understand per-customer traffic delivery costs to guide profitable rates and discounts.
- Broadband ISPs: Quantify OTT/CDN delivery costs; justify caches, optimize peering, and reduce transit costs.
- Cloud, CDN, and content platforms: Compare destination network costs per Mbps to optimize traffic delivery paths and interconnection strategy.
Democratize cost insights
Put cost data in the hands of every team.
- Engineering: Instantly surface high-cost routes, evaluate interconnects, and optimize traffic paths – without manual spreadsheets.
- Sales and commercial: See customer-level delivery economics to guide pricing, renewals, and margin analysis.
- Finance: Gain a dynamic view of spend drivers for better forecasting, budgeting, and accountability.
- Executives and leadership: Get real-time visibility into network financial health to support smarter investment.
“Kentik Traffic Costs is like putting our connectivity spend under an X-ray. We now have instant visibility into which portions of our traffic are driving costs – and exactly where to optimize for performance and savings.”
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FAQs
How do I detect cloud egress cost anomalies early?
Detect egress cost anomalies by continuously attributing spend to traffic drivers (ASNs, regions, services, teams) and alerting on sharp shifts in cost-per-Mbps, route mix, or destination patterns. Kentik supports this with automated cost intelligence and traffic slicing so teams can see exactly what changed, which traffic is driving egress spend, and where to optimize without guessing. See also: Introducing Kentik Traffic Costs.
How do I validate network connectivity invoices and catch billing errors?
Validate invoices by centralizing connectivity pricing and contracts across transit, peering, IXes, and PNIs, then tracking spend by provider, connectivity type, site, and market so discrepancies stand out quickly. Kentik supports this with real-time connectivity spend tracking that helps teams uncover invoice errors, forecast costs, and monitor spend trends over time.
How do I know what traffic is driving my global connectivity spend?
Identify spend drivers by linking connectivity costs to enriched traffic dimensions like ASNs, CDNs, OTT services, geographies, customers, and internal services, then comparing effective cost per Mbps across routes and interconnects. Kentik supports this by showing how ingress and egress paths contribute to cost, and by enabling snapshots and automated monthly tracking so teams can spot shifts and trends quickly.
How do I find high-cost routes and optimize interconnect strategy?
Find optimization opportunities by surfacing high-cost routes and comparing destination or delivery costs per Mbps so you can decide where to optimize peering, reduce transit dependency, or justify changes like caching and interconnect adjustments. Kentik supports this by making cost intelligence usable by engineering without manual spreadsheets and by providing cost context that helps teams choose more efficient delivery paths and interconnect strategies. See also: Optimize Peering and Transit.