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.
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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.
How Workflow Orchestration Reduces Cloud Costs
Instance sizing and reservations get all the attention, but how your workloads actually execute is often the bigger line item. Here's how to find and fix workflow waste.
Anthropic vs OpenAI: Comparing Direct API Costs
Compare Anthropic and OpenAI direct API pricing side by side, from per-token costs to caching discounts and billing models.
AWS Edge Locations: What They Are and How They Impact Cost
How AWS edge locations reduce latency through caching, what CloudFront delivery costs at scale, and when edge caching helps or hurts your cloud bill.