AI Gateways Cut Inference Costs 40%. Most FinOps Teams Haven’t Deployed One.
Enterprise AI budgets grew 483% in two years, with inference consuming 85% of spend. AI gateways cut inference costs 40 to 60% through model routing, semantic caching, and budget enforcement.
Uber Burned Through Its AI Budget in Four Months. Most Enterprises Will Follow.
Uber spent its entire 2026 AI budget in four months on Claude Code. Microsoft canceled licenses. GitHub shifts to usage-based billing June 1. What FinOps teams need to do before the same thing...
The advertised price per token is almost useless for budgeting. Context window creep, output token premiums, and model routing failures inflate actual AI spend by 40 to 60 percent. Here is what...
The AI Inference Cost Paradox: Why Token Prices Drop But Your AI Bill Keeps Climbing
Per-token AI inference costs dropped 280x in two years, yet enterprise AI bills surged 320%. Here's the practitioner framework for managing the AI inference cost paradox — from model routing to...
FinOps for AI: A Practitioner’s Framework for Managing the $500B AI Spend Crisis
98% of FinOps practitioners now manage AI spend, up from 31% in 2024. This practitioner framework covers the metrics, allocation models, and optimization levers you need to govern AI costs before...
AI Governance and Cost Control: How to Set Rules Before Your AI Bill Triples
Organizations that deployed generative AI tools without governance frameworks in 2023 are now discovering significant budget overruns—in our experience working with mid-market and enterprise...
