The numbers vendors don’t put in their pricing pages.
AI deployment costs aren’t just API calls. They’re infrastructure, maintenance, data preparation, and the hidden tax of context window inflation.
Key Concepts
- TCO — Total Cost of Ownership: the real numbers
- Cost Overrun — When the 18K
- Scope Creep — How “just one more feature” destroys budgets
Coming Soon
- Cost benchmarks by deployment size
- Token usage optimization
- Self-hosted vs. API cost comparison
- Regional pricing differences
- Budget templates for SMBs
Cost content is specific: actual dollar amounts, actual timelines, actual tradeoffs.