Cost

3 articles tagged cost.

Model Routing: Stop Paying Frontier Prices for Formatting — Picking one model for your whole product is a pricing decision disguised as an architecture. Routing per step is cheaper, faster, and easier to govern.
Inference Is the New Line Item: Budgeting for Agents That Never Stop — Spending has flipped from training models to running them. That turns AI from a project cost into an operating cost, and changes what you have to instrument.
Cost Caps and Circuit Breakers: Keeping AI Spend Sane — AI spend fails open by default. A daily cap, a per-agent circuit breaker, and per-user metering turn an unbounded bill into a governed budget.