AI Pricing Models Compared: Seat, Usage, Credits, Hybrid, Outcome
Twelve AI pricing models compared on the margin curve as usage per seat grows, and the crossover where seat pricing goes negative, from production data.
AI Product Economics
FinOps KPIs for AI Products: The Six That Survived and the Six That Didn’t
Twelve FinOps KPIs tested on production AI products: cost per request, per subscriber, cache hit rate and forecast variance survived. Total spend did not.
How Much Does AI Cost Per Month? Run Rate by Product Shape
How much AI costs per month for a chat assistant, summarizer, RAG search, or agent, from three inputs you can estimate today, with production ranges.
LLM Cost Per Request: What One AI Request Actually Costs
Nine cost drivers behind one LLM request (input, output, cached tokens, retries, tool calls) and the ranges each landed at on production AI products.
FinOps for AI: What Changes When the Workload Is Inference
Cloud FinOps rules break once the workload is inference. Four assumptions that fail on AI products, the fix for each, and what changed once they shipped.