---
title: "Cloud: What Cloud adds"
summary: "The managed plane: fleet visibility, spend attribution, and verified numbers."
canonical: https://docs.caveman.so/docs/cloud
layer: cloud
license: Commercial
updated: 2026-08-26T03:57:26+02:00
basis: inferred
---

# Cloud: What Cloud adds

> The managed plane: fleet visibility, spend attribution, and verified numbers.
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Everything else on this site runs on your machine and reports `inferred`. Caveman Cloud is the layer
across the network boundary, and it exists to answer one question the local tools structurally cannot.

## The question local tools cannot answer

A local tool sees your bytes. It does not see your invoice.

It can tell you a payload got 82 percent smaller. It cannot tell you what that was worth, because the
price depends on the model, the provider, the cache state at the time, and your contract. It also cannot
tell you whether the smaller payload produced the same answer, because it only saw one arm of the
comparison.

That gap is the whole reason the managed plane exists. It runs both arms, holds the price table, and
compares against traffic that actually happened.

<Note tone="honest" title="Status">
Caveman Cloud is in private development and the waitlist is open. This page describes what it is for, not
how it is built. When it opens, its own surfaces get documented here in full.
</Note>

## What it adds

- Fleet visibility: One view across every agent, developer and workflow, instead of one local database per laptop.
- Spend attribution: Which person, project, agent or branch produced which part of the bill.
- Eval gates: An optimisation is only applied to traffic that passed a grader on that traffic.
- Verified numbers: The only place the word verified is allowed, because it is the only place with both arms of the comparison.

## The vocabulary does not change

The same rules that bind the local tools bind the managed plane. `inferred` stays `inferred` when it
arrives from a laptop. A number does not get promoted by crossing a network.

The four money figures are kept separate and are never added together: measured spend, inferred headroom,
verified savings, and observed outcome. There is no fifth bucket, and in particular there is no
"realised savings" figure that quietly blends the others.

## Getting access

The waitlist and contact details are on [caveman.so](https://caveman.so). Self-hosting the open layers
needs no account and no waitlist. If all you want is compression on your own machine, you already have
everything you need in the three layers below this one.