# Manage Cursor costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

DevFeed: [Manage Cursor costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/manage-cursor-costs-with-datadog-cloud-cost-management-26968.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/cursor-cloud-cost-management/>)

Author: Dom Nguyen; Doug Gunter

Published: 2026-09-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [cloud cost management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-cost-management.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cursor.md>), [finops](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/finops.md>), [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-coding.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-coding.md>), [analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analysis.md>), [cloud-cost-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-cost-management.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [datadog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datadog.md>), [features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/features.md>), [filter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/filter.md>), [finops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/finops.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitor.md>), [monitors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitors.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how Datadog Cloud Cost Management helps teams analyze Cursor spending by user, model, usage mode, and billing group. It covers identifying cost drivers, detecting unexpected changes, correlating spend with usage, and using monitors, budgets, and dashboards to manage AI coding costs alongside cloud and SaaS spending.

## Source excerpt

Analyze Cursor spend by user and model, catch unexpected cost changes, and manage AI coding costs alongside your cloud and SaaS spend.