Advanced FinOps

Once you’ve mastered the basics, these advanced strategies help you optimize AI costs at enterprise scale. From infrastructure decisions to financial forecasting, level up your FinOps practice.

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Fine-tuning vs. Prompting Make the ROI-driven choice between custom models and prompt engineering.

Open Source LLMs Calculate the true TCO of self-hosted vs. API-based models.

Token Budgeting Implement per-request and per-user token limits.

Inference Infrastructure Choose between cloud, edge, and hybrid deployment strategies.

RAG Economics Understand the cost dynamics of retrieval-augmented generation.

Unit Economics Calculate cost-per-conversation and margin analysis.

Cost Forecasting Predict and plan for AI infrastructure spending.

Cost Monitoring Build real-time dashboards and alerting for AI costs.