API Cost Attribution & Unit Economics

Lattice API Platform · Infrastructure Gross Margin Analysis

API Gross Margin
54.2%
-7.1pp vs. Q-3
Cost Per 1M Calls
$24.51
-$1.82 vs. prior
Free Tier Burn Rate
28.4%
-5.6pp post-quota cut
3P API Cost Share
37.2%
+9.4pp (ML vendor)
Cache Hit Rate
68.3%
+4.1pp optimized
Monthly Infra Spend
$69.8k
+12.3% MoM

Endpoint Cost Distribution (Current Month)

Rectangle size = total monthly cost. Color = cost per million calls intensity.

Cost Per Million Calls by Endpoint (Top 8)

Free Tier vs. Paid Infrastructure Spend

Egress Cost by Segment

Third-Party API Attribution

ML Inference (Cohere) $25,976
Geocoding (Google) $8,420
Email Validation $4,210
Phone Enrichment $2,890
IP Geolocation $1,450

Quota Utilization by Tier

Monthly Cost Attribution Waterfall (Last 90 Days)

Cache Hit Rate by Endpoint Cluster

Reserved vs. On-Demand Compute

Account-Level Cost Attribution (Top 10 by Cost)

Account Tier API Calls (M) Infra Cost MRR Cost/Revenue Margin
Acme Logistics IncEnterprise47.2$8,940$12,5000.7228.5%
DataFlow AnalyticsEnterprise38.9$7,210$9,8000.7426.4%
GlobalShip PartnersPartner52.1$6,830$8,2000.8316.7%
VerifyTech SolutionsPro21.4$5,940$4,9001.21-21.2%
MarketPulse CorpEnterprise29.7$5,120$11,2000.4654.3%
RouteOptima IncPro18.3$4,680$5,4000.8713.3%
LeadGen SystemsPro16.8$4,230$3,9001.08-8.5%
CloudSync DataEnterprise22.1$3,890$8,6000.4554.8%
SmartRoute AIPro14.2$3,640$4,2000.8713.3%
EnrichData ProFree42.7$3,520$0∞-100%

Burst Cost Overage Trend (90 Days)

Cross-Region Replication Cost

us-east-1 (Primary) $28,340
eu-west-1 $14,680
ap-southeast-1 $8,920
ap-northeast-1 $6,140
Cross-region egress $11,720