AI Cost Management vs Cloud Cost Management: What Changes

Key Takeaways The short answer: AI cost management applies the same FinOps operating model to spend billed by token, request, seat, and agent run. What breaks: Forecasting, commitment, and allocation habits built on persistent, taggable resources stop working when the unit of spend is a model call. What stays: Visibility, allocation, budgets, anomaly management, and unit economics all carry over from your cloud practice.