AI FinOps Prompt Caching vs Semantic Caching vs Exact Match Two of these caches skip the LLM call for $0; the third makes the call cheaper. Here is what prompt caching, semantic caching, and gateway exact match each catch, and how to layer all three.
2026 Guide Best AI Spend Tracking Tools for Engineering Teams 2026 Tuesday 3:17 a.m. The pager fires. $1,840 of gpt-4o-mini in forty minutes, and the dashboard cannot stop the agent. Ten AI spend tracking tools engineering teams actually evaluate in 2026, ranked.
2026 Guide Real-Time LLM Budget Guardrails and Attribution in 2026 The invoice says $14,200. Nobody knows which agent did it. Token-level attribution plus inline policy enforcement is the two-layer architecture that catches LLM spend the second it happens, across every provider.
Alephant What Is AI FinOps? The 2026 Definitive Guide 98% of FinOps teams now manage AI spend, up from 31% in 2024. This is what AI FinOps means in 2026 — definition, four pillars, the gateway layer, and a five-step practice.
AI cost control Why Your AI Bill Is an Engineering Problem: AI FinOps for SaaS Builders Month one: $42. Month three: $2,417.48. The AI FinOps Gateway field guide for SaaS builders who already shipped — attribution, hard caps, BYO-KEY, no key handover.
Alephant Featured Meet Alephant: The AI FinOps Gateway (2026) Alephant is an AI FinOps gateway for tracking, attributing, optimizing, and controlling AI API spend before surprise bills become month-end problems.
