Cost Governance
Keep costs predictable and in check
SmartBear BearQ™ provides full visibility and control over platform consumption so teams can scale autonomous testing responsibly without unexpected costs or unchecked resource use.
The challenge
AI-powered tools that scale without control create financial risk.
Consumption scales with coverageThe more agentic QA explores, generates tests, and executes validation, the more resources it consumes. This consumption means more coverage and more confidence, but scaling agentic QA requires certainty around cost through visibility and control.Enterprises need predictabilityEnterprise teams in particular need predictability. Finance teams need to plan, platform owners need to allocate resources responsibly, and organizations with multiple teams running BearQ need governance that spans across them.
How BearQ works
Consumption you can see. Costs you can control.
BearQ gives teams clear visibility into how platform resources are being consumed by project, by team, and over time, along with controls that prevent unexpected overages.
- Consumption visibility
- Understand exactly how BearQ's resources are being used. Track consumption by project and across testing cycles so there are no surprises.
IN PRACTICE
What cost governance across a multi-team deployment looks like
- An engineering organization deploys BearQ across four product teams.
- Each team has a defined monthly consumption allocation set by the platform owner.
- BearQ's governance dashboard gives the platform owner a real-time view of consumption across all four teams.
- One team approaches its monthly limit mid-cycle. BearQ surfaces an alert. The team and platform owner can decide to expand the allocation or scope down exploration for the remainder of the cycle.
- At the end of the month, a governance report is available for finance review, showing actual versus planned consumption across all teams.
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