The Challenge

Invoices hide the cost of each answer.

Spend is grouped by vendor, while the business cares about resolved requests. Waste stays hidden until volume grows.

01

Late surprises

Teams find expensive prompts when the invoice arrives.

02

No cost per result

Spend is not tied to the task it paid for.

03

Premium models for easy work

Every request takes the same route.

04

Untested savings claims

Reduction figures depend on the workload and are rarely checked.

What You Get
Capabilities

Each task runs on the cheapest capable model.

We test quality and cost together. On our own system, the redesign cut daily cost by about 70 to 75 percent. Your saving depends on your workload, and we measure it.

TRACE

Cost per workload

Tie tokens, model calls and infrastructure to each task and team.

Perfect for
  • Token tracing
  • Tagging
  • Cost per task
  • Dashboards
INSPECT

Prompt review

Find oversized context, repeated lookups and retries that add cost without improving answers.

Perfect for
  • Context size
  • Retries
  • Retrieval
  • Prompt audit
TEST

Routing and caching

Compare smaller models, caching and model cascades on real requests, checking quality at each step.

Perfect for
  • Model routing
  • Caching
  • Cascades
  • Small models
CONTROL

Budgets and limits

Set spending caps, alerts and an exception path for each workload.

Perfect for
  • Budgets
  • Alerts
  • Rate limits
  • Approvals
FORECAST

Unit economics

Project cost per result at production volume before a pilot expands.

Perfect for
  • Forecasts
  • Unit cost
  • Scenarios
  • Reviews

How It Works

01. Baseline

We measure one high-spend workflow's cost, volume and quality.

02. Experiment

We test the best savings options and keep only what passes quality checks.

03. Control

We put the new route live with limits, alerts and an owner.

What you get!
Business Outcomes

Lower unit cost lets AI scale.

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Task-level visibility

You see which task drove the spend.

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Right-sized models

Expensive models handle only hard requests.

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Less repeat work

Results are cached where possible.

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Smaller prompts

Unneeded tokens are removed and answers are retested.

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No surprises

Costly runs hit a cap and trigger an alert.

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Quality-aware savings

Savings are weighed against accuracy and speed.

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Clear ownership

Each team owns its number and its controls.

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Known unit cost

Cost at scale is known before expansion.

Case in Point

Our own AI infrastructure

Point One Zero practice

One of Point One Zero's own AI systems cost $17.60 a day, and we could not say which tasks drove the spend. We traced it, moved routine steps to smaller models with a fallback to stronger ones, added caching and trimmed context, testing quality after each change. Daily cost fell to $4 to $5, and we corrected our own sales deck where it overstated how widely that saving applies.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is AI FinOps?

Financial discipline for AI workloads: making model and cloud costs visible per task, setting budgets and limits, and reducing the cost of each result while tracking quality.

How can I cut LLM token costs?

Route routine tasks to smaller models, cache repeated context, shorten prompts, remove needless retries and use stronger models only when needed. Test each change on real requests.

How do I calculate the cost of an AI task?

Tag every model call and resource with its task, add up tokens, fees and compute, and divide by the number of useful results.

How much can AI costs be reduced?

It depends on the workload. We cut one of our own systems by about 70 to 75 percent, but only measurement on your traffic gives a real figure.

Does cheaper mean lower quality?

Not necessarily. Many tasks, such as classification and extraction, run just as well on smaller models. We keep a change only if quality holds.

Get Started

Start with the bill nobody can explain.

We will trace one workflow, price each result and find the first saving to test.

Request an AI cost review

Or email us at admin@pointonezero.com.