# Token attribution

Assigning token usage and associated costs to an accountable application, team, business unit, customer, model, or use case.

The step that turns a single aggregate AI bill into something a finance team can actually act on. Revenium and DX both attempt this at the code-artifact level — joining spend to commits and pull requests — with very different integrity guarantees behind the join, which is exactly what this site's comparison of the two is built to surface.

**Related research:**
- [Token Economics: The Atomic Unit of AI Value](https://measuredvalue.ai/research/token-economics-atomic-unit-of-ai-value/)
- [Tokenomics and FinOps: How Do They Fit Together?](https://measuredvalue.ai/research/tokenomics-and-finops-how-do-they-fit-together/)