# Costs

> Spend summaries, breakdowns, trends, usage, allocation and forecasts.

Source: https://docs.levelfour.ai/api-reference/costs


- [Get spending summary](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-summary): Returns spending summary: overall costs, forecast, savings, and provider breakdown

- [Top growing services](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-top-growing): Returns services ranked by largest percent growth between current and previous period.

- [List distinct tag keys](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-by-tag-keys): Returns the distinct provider tag keys present in the tenant's per-tag cost data and every virtual tag key, so the dashboard can offer both as choices. A provider key that a virtual key of the same name replaces is left out.

- [Cost grouped by tag value](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-by-tag): Returns spend grouped by tag_value for a given tag_key (e.g., team, tribe, squad, cost-center). Includes a per-team category breakdown.

- [Tag allocation coverage](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-allocation): Returns showback coverage for a tag key: total, tagged, untagged, coverage percentage, and a per-value breakdown.

- [Google Cloud cost by a hierarchy of labels](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-by-labels): Returns Google Cloud spend grouped by up to three label keys at once, for example cluster, namespace and workload. A resource label wins over the same key set on its project.

- [Usage and unit economics by usage type](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-usage): Returns spend, billable quantity, unit, and derived cost per unit grouped by usage type.

- [Get spend forecast](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-forecast): Returns forecasted spend value, confidence bounds, and a 60-point sparkline (past 30 days actual + next 30 days forecast).

- [Get cost breakdown](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-breakdown): Returns cost breakdown in different formats: table (paginated), chart (aggregated), csv (export), raw (all records)

- [Get daily spending breakdown](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-daily-breakdown): Returns daily spending aggregated per day for the given date range

- [Get monthly spending](/api-reference/costs/get-costs-monthly-spending): Returns monthly spending aggregated per month