#aicosts — Public Fediverse posts

Everyone knows that in the Cocaine pricing model, the first 3 hits are free -- then you gotta pay!

Same with AI ... Software vendors and AI model providers have been giving AI away for free to spur adoption by enterprises. Can you say “unmetered,” “complimentary,” or “included” scenarios.

Those “complimentary" subsidies are starting to disappear, as the AI industry transitions to Pay-Per-Use pricing models.

This means investing in AI is NOT just an IT procurement decision, it is now an "organizational design decision". https://hbr.org/2026/08/how-to-respond-to-the-coming-ai-cost-shock #AI #AICosts #AIPricing #HBR #Subsidized #Budgets #AIBudgeting #Pricing #Subscription #AI_Token #TokenConsumption #Enterprise_IT #AI_Token_Budgets

#ChineseAImodels are gaining traction among US companies due to their competitive #performance and significantly #lowercosts compared to leading American rivals like #OpenAI and #Anthropic. The rise of #opensource and #openweight #AI from Chinese companies, such as #DeepSeek and #Zai, is particularly appealing as US #AIcosts soar. While still slightly behind top US models, Chinese options are closing the gap and offer a #costeffective alternative. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/chinese-ai-models-costs-us-openai-anthropic.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Gizmodo: The Token Belt-Tightening Is Coming for PDFs. “Many large companies have pushed employees to use AI for nearly everything, partly to justify the enormous sums they poured into the technology without any clear integration strategy. But a new report from 404 Media shows that some of those same firms are now tightening access after discovering that employees are burning tokens on tasks […]

'We created a monster': companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets

https://www.ft.com/content/1d37cc08-e0aa-45a4-a45d-4ad282529314

#HackerNews #AIcosts #CompaniesAI #BudgetConstraints #TechNews #AIethics

FYI: Cloudflare AI Gateway now caps runaway AI bills with dollar budgets: Cloudflare added spend limits to AI Gateway today, letting firms cap AI costs in dollars by team, user or model, with fallback routing when budgets run out. https://ppc.land/cloudflare-ai-gateway-now-caps-runaway-ai-bills-with-dollar-budgets/ #Cloudflare #AIGateway #ArtificialIntelligence #AICosts #BudgetManagement

The shift to #usagebased #pricing for #AI, measured by #tokens, is creating challenges for CFOs. Only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their #AIcosts, with many experiencing unpredictable and hard-to-model expenses. Companies are implementing tools to manage #AIspending, scrutinising employee usage, and focussing budgets on major projects to control costs. https://www.wsj.com/cfo-journal/the-metric-cfos-struggle-to-track-ai-usage-3b30c10c?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Ouch! In a single month, an unnamed enterprise customer ran up a roughly $500 million bill on Anthropic’s Claude.

https://yellow.com/news/claude-spending-tops-500m-usage-limits #AIcosts

DeepSeek-V4-Pro API 价格永久下调，竞争格局或现动荡

DeepSeek V4 Pro API prices are now permanently 75% lower. Find out how this impacts AI development costs for developers and startups.

#DeepSeekAPI, #AIcosts, #LLMpricing, #TechNews, #DeveloperTools

https://newsletter.tf/deepseek-v4-api-price-permanently-drops-75-percent/

DeepSeek V4 Pro API prices have dropped permanently to 25% of their original cost, making AI development significantly cheaper than before.

#DeepSeekAPI, #AIcosts, #LLMpricing, #TechNews, #DeveloperTools
https://newsletter.tf/deepseek-v4-api-price-permanently-drops-75-percent/

Wall Street Journal: Corporate America is starting to ration AI as cost skyrockets. This is an MSN-syndicated article and has no paywall. “Use of artificial intelligence by big companies is exploding—and the soaring cost has some of them pumping the brakes in a way that could complicate AI’s triumphal march across the economy.”

Rising #AIcosts are forcing Fortune 500 companies to choose between investing in #AI and hiring new #employees. The cost of AI has increased with each new model release, making it as expensive as human labour. This has led companies to reassess their AI spending, opting for cheaper models for less demanding tasks. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/29/-tokens-or-humans-the-new-corporate-trade-off.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news

The spiralling costs of using AI are becoming a real problem: Microsoft stops using Claude Code, Uber burned their entire 2026 AI budget back in April, Salesforce, Meta and even Amazon are limiting the "tokenmaxxing" culture.
#AICosts

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

OpenClaw's $1.3M OpenAI Bill Highlights AI Cost Escalation

OpenClaw spent $1.3M on OpenAI API for coding agents. This shows high AI costs and impacts software development roles. What happens next?

#OpenAI, #AICosts, #CodingAgents, #TechNews, #SoftwareDevelopment

https://newsletter.tf/openai-api-costs-1-3m-for-coding-agents/

One project, OpenClaw, spent $1.3 million on OpenAI's API in just one month. This is a huge amount and shows how much AI is costing.

#OpenAI, #AICosts, #CodingAgents, #TechNews, #SoftwareDevelopment
https://newsletter.tf/openai-api-costs-1-3m-for-coding-agents/

@bhg

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Here are the actual numbers

Train Gemini Ultra ~150 GWh
Distill Nano from Ultra ~1–5 GWh / ~1–3%
One Gemini cloud query 0.24 Wh / 0.00000016%
1 year of Gemini cloud serving (~1B queries/day) ~90 GWh / ~60%

👉One Nano on-device query ~0 datacenter-side (phone battery) 0% 👈

Aggregate inference passes the training run in roughly 18–24 months at frontier-deployment scale and that's only counting the per-query number Google chose to publish. Query volume is a rough order-of-magnitude estimate

Gemini Ultra burn would have occurred regardless of Nano deployment.

Nano distill is a one off expenditure of SA grid demand for a day. After that free model with phone recharge.

Maths.

#AiEnergy #AIcosts #Ai

Microsoft Pivots Hard Towards "Agentic AI" and "Vibe Working"

Microsoft is changing GitHub Copilot pricing on June 1st to a usage-based model. Find out how this affects organizations and workers using AI.

#MicrosoftAI, #GitHubCopilot, #AICosts, #TechNews, #FutureOfWork

https://newsletter.tf/microsoft-copilot-pricing-changes-june-1st/

Microsoft's GitHub Copilot will move to a usage-based pricing model on June 1st. This change comes as enterprise subscribers have nearly tripled, reaching 140,000 organizations.

#MicrosoftAI, #GitHubCopilot, #AICosts, #TechNews, #FutureOfWork
https://newsletter.tf/microsoft-copilot-pricing-changes-june-1st/

🖥️🤖 Ah, the irony! An article claims AI is pricier than humans, yet it can't even afford to function without #JavaScript and cookies enabled. 😂 Who knew the real cost of AI was a browser setting? 🍪💸
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/ai-cost-human-workers #AIcosts #browsersettings #irony #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

🤖 Oh no, AI agents are getting pricier, but fear not—Toby Ord brilliantly distracts us with... a crash course in web form editing! 📝 Because who doesn't love a detour through the riveting world of contact forms while fretting over AI costs? 🙄
https://www.tobyord.com/writing/hourly-costs-for-ai-agents #AIcosts #WebForms #TobyOrd #TechNews #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session

https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you

#HackerNews #ClaudeOpus #Claude4.7 #AIcosts #Tokenizer #TechNews

OpenAI Pauses UK Stargate Project Amid Energy Costs and Regulatory Questions

OpenAI has stopped its UK Stargate project in north-east England because energy costs are too high and rules are unclear. This affects UK AI plans.

#OpenAI, #StargateUK, #AICosts, #UKTech, #DataCentre

https://newsletter.tf/openai-pauses-uk-stargate-project-energy-costs/

OpenAI's UK Stargate project is paused. This is a major change from the plan announced last September to build a large data centre in north-east England.

#OpenAI, #StargateUK, #AICosts, #UKTech, #DataCentre
https://newsletter.tf/openai-pauses-uk-stargate-project-energy-costs/

What AI coding costs you

https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-02-15/finding-the-right-amount-of-ai/

#HackerNews #AIcoding #AIcosts #Technology #ethics #MachineLearning

AI inferencing costs are the latest and greatest wrinkle making cloud cost management a continuing headache for enterprise organizations. https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/cloud_costs_ai_inferencing/ #AI #AIInferencing #AICosts #Cloud #CloudCosts #FinOps #PublicCloud

🚨 OpenAI slashes o3 model prices by 80%! Now $2/1M input tokens, $8/1M output tokens. New "flex" mode: $5 input/$20 output. Major cost reduction for developers 📉 #OpenAI #o3model #AI #APIpricing #developers #machinelearning #AIcosts #SamAltman #affordableAI #techupdate

»#Amazon CEO #AndyJassy says #AIcosts will come down over time even as company invests ‘aggressively’.« https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/amazon-ceo-andy-jassys-2025-shareholder-letter.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news