💼 The AI Cost Control Problem
Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are facing difficulties in controlling AI expenses due to vendors shifting to usage-based pricing models. The primary metric is becoming token consumption, which makes budgets difficult to predict and creates the risk of sudden, uncontrolled cost growth.
🌍 The paradigm shift from fixed subscriptions to pay-per-token requires the implementation of new financial control tools and changes in approaches to IT budget planning.
👤 Users must understand that the cost of AI services now depends directly on the volume of processed data (tokens), rather than just the number of seats/workstations.
Source 1: https://article.wn.com/view-scrap/2026/06/05/The_Metric_CFOs_Struggle_to_Track_AI_Usage/