Cost & FinOps for AI
Unit economics per request, token accounting, reserved versus spot capacity, and attributing spend to features.
5concepts
62flashcards
35minutes of reading
- 01 Token Accounting and Cost Attribution Why a single provider invoice cannot be allocated to teams, features or customers without instrumentation, and the tagging discipline that makes AI spend attributable.
- 02 Training Cost Estimation Before You Commit The FLOP arithmetic that converts a model and dataset size into a GPU-hour figure, why achieved utilisation is the term that decides the answer, and the overheads that turn an estimate into a budget.