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The State of Cloud and AI Cost Management in 2026
The FinOps Summer Camp webinar series kicks off with Session 1, featuring Ben Schaechter, CEO and co-founder of Vantage, and Jean Atelsek, Senior Analyst at 451 Research by S&P Global.
Build vs Buy in the Age of AI: Cloud Cost Management Tools
AI makes internal tooling easier to build, but cloud cost management still comes with ongoing work around provider changes, data accuracy, automation, and ownership.
Token Budgeting: How To Think About AI Cost Control
Learn how to budget AI token spend across teams and developers by using cost allocation, unit costs, and efficiency metrics instead of raw usage alone.
AI Costs Are Cloud Costs Now
AI coding tool spend is usage-based, variable, hard to predict, and skewed by power users. It's cloud infrastructure economics all over again, and it needs the same FinOps treatment.
Your Most Expensive Developer Might Be Your Most Efficient
Per-developer AI spend data creates an instinct to rein in the top spenders. But raw cost without a denominator is meaningless - here's how to measure what agentic coding actually delivers.
The Hidden Cost Driver in Agentic Coding: It's Not the Per-Token Price
Per-token pricing gets all the visibility, but agentic sessions have a completely different cost structure. Input tokens, context accumulation, and session length are what actually drive the bill.
AI Cost Observability: Measuring and Justifying Token Spend
A recap of our recent webinar on applying FinOps practices to AI token costs - from provider data gaps to developer-level attribution and model switching tradeoffs.
How to Track Cursor Costs Across Your Engineering Team
Cursor adoption scales fast. Visibility into what's driving the bill usually doesn't. Here's how to understand what you're spending and how to get granular cost tracking set up.
Cursor's Composer 2: What It Means for Your AI Coding Costs
Cursor just shipped a model that beats Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks at a tenth of the per-token price. Here's what Composer 2's pricing means for your team's AI coding spend.