Introducing Teams

We're excited to announce Teams — a powerful new way to manage AI usage across your organization. Whether you're a startup with a handful of developers or a growing company with multiple departments, Teams gives you the control, visibility, and flexibility to scale AI adoption effectively.

The Challenge We're Solving

As AI becomes an essential tool for teams, organizations face a common set of challenges:

• Scattered billing: Individual accounts make it impossible to track company-wide AI spend
• No usage visibility: Who's using what? How much is each project costing?
• Access control gaps: Some models are expensive — how do you prevent runaway costs?
• Onboarding friction: Getting new team members set up takes time

Teams addresses all of these with a unified system designed for real-world organizational needs.

What Teams Enables

Unified Billing, Individual Attribution

With Teams, all usage charges roll up to a single account while maintaining complete visibility into who used what. When a team member runs a query, the cost is attributed to them but billed to the team owner's account. You get:

• Consolidated invoicing: One bill for your entire organization
• Per-member tracking: See exactly what each person is spending
• Flexible billing modes: Members can toggle between team billing and personal accounts

Role-Based Access Control

Not everyone needs the same level of control. Teams supports three roles:

Usage Limits That Actually Work

Set spending guardrails that prevent budget surprises:

• Team-wide defaults: Set a monthly limit that applies to all members
• Per-member overrides: Give your power users more headroom
• Soft or hard enforcement: Warn members or block usage when limits are reached

Usage resets monthly, so you always have a fresh start.

Model Access Control

Running expensive models across an entire team can drain budgets quickly. With the model allowlist, admins can restrict which models team members can access:

Claude Sonnet 4.5     ✓ Allowed
Gemini Pro 3   ✓ Allowed
GPT 5.1  ✓ Allowed
Claude Opus 4.5    ✗ Restricted

Models not explicitly restricted remain available by default — you only need to configure what you want to lock down.

How Teams Works

Creating a Team

Head to the Teams page in your dashboard and click Create Team. Give it a name, and you're instantly the owner with full control.

Inviting Members

From the Members tab, invite colleagues by email. Choose their role upfront — they'll receive a secure link to join instantly. For faster onboarding, enable a public invite link that anyone can use to request access.

Managing Your Team

The dashboard gives you full visibility and control:

• Overview: See your team's balance, member count, and pending requests at a glance
• Members: View everyone's usage, adjust roles, and set individual spending limits
• Usage: Track spending over any date range with per-member breakdowns
• Settings: Configure team-wide defaults, model access, and billing preferences

Tracking Usage

The Usage tab shows exactly where your AI spend is going. Filter by date range, see per-member breakdowns, and export the data you need for chargebacks or budgeting.

Real-World Use Cases

Engineering Teams

Set up separate teams for frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Each team has its own usage limits and model access. Engineering leads can manage their own members while finance tracks overall spend.

Agencies

Create a team per client project. Bill AI costs accurately, enforce project-specific budgets, and provide clients with usage reports showing exactly what they're paying for.

Research Groups

Give researchers access to powerful models while students get access to cost-effective alternatives. Track usage for grant reporting and ensure budgets stay on target.

Startups

Start with a single team. As you grow, usage limits prevent any single developer from accidentally burning through your credits during an experimental marathon.

Built for Production

Teams isn't a prototype — it's built on the same infrastructure that powers NanoGPT's core platform:

• Atomic usage tracking: Redis-backed counters that handle high concurrency
• Audit trails: Soft-deletes preserve history for compliance
• Type-safe APIs: Comprehensive validation on all inputs
• Secure invitations: Cryptographically random tokens with expiration support

Getting Started

Teams is available now for all NanoGPT users. Head to your dashboard and click Teams in the sidebar to get started.

For developers looking to integrate programmatically, we also offer a full Teams API.

High-Volume Teams

Planning to run a lot of prompts or process large amounts of tokens? We offer volume discounts for teams with significant usage. Reach out to us at support@nano-gpt.com or on Discord to discuss pricing that works for your scale.

This is just the beginning. We're actively working on:

• Detailed analytics dashboards with charts and trends
• Scheduled reports delivered to your inbox
• SSO integration for enterprise customers
• Cost allocation tags for project-level tracking
• Webhook notifications for usage alerts

We'd Love Your Feedback

Teams was built based on feedback from customers who needed better ways to manage AI at scale. If you have ideas for how we can make it even better, reach out to us on Discord or via the chat on our website.

Happy collaborating!