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What AI Token Consumption Means for Your Pricing Model
    AI/ML

What AI Token Consumption Means for Your Pricing Model

Every SaaS company building with AI hits the same wall eventually. Your AI bills grow. Someone asks which customers, features, or teams are driving that spend, and no one has a clean answer. That’s not a tooling gap. It’s a data gap. And the companies feeling it most are the ones where AI isn’t a […]

Devorah Klartag
Devorah Klartag AI Infrastructure Practitioner
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How to Track Per-Customer Costs in a Multi-Tenant AWS Architecture
AI/MLFinance & Business 22/06/2026

How to Track Per-Customer Costs in a Multi-Tenant AWS Architecture

Most SaaS infrastructure is multi-tenant by default. One AWS account, one EKS cluster, one RDS instance, shared across hundreds or thousands of customers. It keeps utilization high, yet makes answering “what does it actually cost to run customer X?” nearly impossible. This question comes up constantly, and the answers usually range from “we tag what […]

Devorah Klartag
Devorah Klartag AI Infrastructure Practitioner
22/06/2026
The Complete Guide to Cloud and AI Cost Attribution
AI/MLEngineeringFinance & Business 17/06/2026

The Complete Guide to Cloud and AI Cost Attribution

Most SaaS companies cannot explain why one enterprise customer costs 20x more to serve than another. The data exists. It is spread across a Kubernetes cluster, three shared databases, a message queue, an external AI API, and a NAT gateway with no ownership attached. By the time the billing export arrives, the cost has happened. […]

Devorah Klartag
Devorah Klartag AI Infrastructure Practitioner
17/06/2026
You Don’t Have a Pricing Problem. You Have a Cost Visibility Problem.
Finance & Business 11/05/2026

You Don’t Have a Pricing Problem. You Have a Cost Visibility Problem.

Most SaaS pricing debates start in the wrong place. Teams argue about tiers. They agonize over seat counts versus usage limits. They benchmark competitors. They run surveys asking customers what they’d pay. Then they launch, watch margins compress, and wonder what happened. Here’s what happened: the pricing model was built on cost estimates, not cost […]

Devorah Klartag
Devorah Klartag AI Infrastructure Practitioner
11/05/2026
You’re Not Ready for the AI Bill That’s Coming
EngineeringFinance & Business 06/05/2026

You’re Not Ready for the AI Bill That’s Coming

There’s a pattern showing up across engineering teams right now. A team is building. Rolling out AI tools. Adding LLM features to the product. Full speed on adoption. And when the topic of cost visibility comes up, the answer is some version of: “That’s not a priority yet. We’ll deal with costs once we’re off […]

Devorah Klartag
Devorah Klartag AI Infrastructure Practitioner
06/05/2026
LLM gateways are the new FinOps blind spot
AI/ML 29/04/2026

LLM gateways are the new FinOps blind spot

If your OpenAI traffic runs through LiteLLM, Portkey, Kong AI Gateway, or an internal gateway, your cost attribution model is already broken. Every upstream caller collapses into a single workload identity at the exact point where money starts being spent. Provider billing, tag-based FinOps tools, and cloud cost platforms cannot split that cost back by […]

Devorah Klartag
Devorah Klartag AI Infrastructure Practitioner
29/04/2026
Cloud Cost Optimization Without Tagging: Real-Time Kubernetes Cost Visibility and FinOps Solutions for SaaS
EngineeringFinance & Business 15/04/2026

Cloud Cost Optimization Without Tagging: Real-Time Kubernetes Cost Visibility and FinOps Solutions for SaaS

For years, FinOps has worked from the same data: billing exports, cloud tags, and month-end reports. That model doesn’t work for teams running Kubernetes, shared services, and multi-tenant workloads at scale.

Devorah Klartag
Devorah Klartag AI Infrastructure Practitioner
15/04/2026
The hidden complexity behind Cloud Cost Unit Economics
EngineeringFinance & Business 09/02/2026

The hidden complexity behind Cloud Cost Unit Economics

Cloud cost questions tend to sound simple. At a small scale, these are easy to answer with rough estimates. As systems grow, they quietly become some of the hardest questions in the organization. Not because teams lack data, but because the way modern infrastructure works has changed. Cost stopped mapping cleanly to ownership In early-stage […]

Attribute Team
Attribute Team
09/02/2026
Attribute Partners with RealCloud to Bring FinOps Without Tagging to Latin America
News 08/02/2026

Attribute Partners with RealCloud to Bring FinOps Without Tagging to Latin America

Cloud adoption in Latin America continues to accelerate faster with AI workloads, SaaS growth, and cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and managed services. As infrastructure scales, so does the need for accurate cost observability that connects cloud spend to business outcomes through automated business mapping based on actual consumption. RealCloud, a leading provider of continuous cloud management […]

Devorah Klartag
Devorah Klartag AI Infrastructure Practitioner
08/02/2026
What Does a No-Tagging Deployment Actually Look Like?
Engineeringintegrations 04/02/2026

What Does a No-Tagging Deployment Actually Look Like?

Traditional FinOps systems rely heavily on manual resource tagging, which creates operational friction, governance overhead, and engineering resistance. This article provides a step-by-step guide showing DevOps and Platform teams how to deploy a no-tagging runtime attribution system. 

Izhak Zimmerman
Izhak Zimmerman CEO & Co-Founder
04/02/2026
The “Open Bar” AI Bill – True crime story from the life of VP Engineering
Engineering 15/10/2025

The “Open Bar” AI Bill – True crime story from the life of VP Engineering

As engineering leaders, we’re all living through a massive platform shift. AI isn’t just a buzzword on a slide deck anymore; it’s a powerful tool that’s fundamentally changing how we build and deliver software.  However, integrating AI isn’t a single challenge, it’s a grand expedition with two parallel journeys, each requiring completely different maps.  The […]

Orit Yaron
Orit Yaron
15/10/2025
Attribute Sensor is Now Officially Certified for GKE Autopilot
Engineering 15/07/2025

Attribute Sensor is Now Officially Certified for GKE Autopilot

Attribute Sensor is now officially certified for GKE Autopilot. Built on secure eBPF technology, Attribute Sensor empowers FinOps without tagging, even in fully managed Kubernetes environments. GCP customers can now gain granular insights across teams, services, and customers, while preserving Autopilot’s performance and security.

Orit Yaron
Orit Yaron
15/07/2025
SaaS Hosting Benchmarks by ARR and Maturity
Finance & Business 14/05/2025

SaaS Hosting Benchmarks by ARR and Maturity

Hosting is a major, fluctuating cost for SaaS companies, directly affecting margins and valuation. This article benchmarks how hosting costs evolve with scale, using real data and 10-K filings from public SaaS firms.

Izhak Zimmerman
Izhak Zimmerman CEO & Co-Founder
14/05/2025
Your AZs Are Talking Behind Your Back-and It’s Costing You a Fortune
product 05/05/2025

Your AZs Are Talking Behind Your Back-and It’s Costing You a Fortune

Here’s a fun cloud trivia question: What’s invisible, silent, and quietly draining tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars from your AWS bill every month? No, it’s not unused EBS volumes (though, yes, clean those up too).It’s AZ-to-AZ data transfer, and it’s sneakier than you think. The Costly Chatter of AZs In AWS, when data […]

Hili Paryenti
Hili Paryenti
05/05/2025
From Fit to Friction: The Evolution of Our Data Processing Stack
Engineering 06/03/2025

From Fit to Friction: The Evolution of Our Data Processing Stack

We recently migrated our data processing infra from Serverless Dataporc to SparkApplication over K8s. Why? Because the wind shifted.

Orit Yaron
Orit Yaron
06/03/2025
When I Needed Attribute in My Previous Life as a Technical PM and a Developer
product 18/12/2024

When I Needed Attribute in My Previous Life as a Technical PM and a Developer

ARR only tells we gain from the customer. It doesn’t reveal what the customer costs us, especially in cloud-heavy, multi-tenant environments. Here’s a solution.

Hili Paryenti
Hili Paryenti
18/12/2024
FinOps 2.0 — Beyond Cost Optimization
Engineering 27/11/2024

FinOps 2.0 — Beyond Cost Optimization

Orit Yaron believes it’s time for FinOps to evolve, and she calls it FinOps 2.0. Here’s her vision for what’s next.

Orit Yaron
Orit Yaron
27/11/2024
Data Standardization: The Hidden and Untapped Challenge in FinOps
Engineering 21/11/2024

Data Standardization: The Hidden and Untapped Challenge in FinOps

What is data standardization and how can organizations address this hidden FinOps challenge? Answers inside.

Hili Paryenti
Hili Paryenti
21/11/2024
Unlocking Cloud Cost Visibility with eBPF: A Game-Changer for FinOps
Engineering 20/11/2024

Unlocking Cloud Cost Visibility with eBPF: A Game-Changer for FinOps

Attribute revolutionize FinOps with eBPF: gain real-time, no-tagging cloud cost visibility for dynamic environments. Enabling organizations to achieve unparalleled cloud cost visibility and allocation

Orit Yaron
Orit Yaron
20/11/2024
Pizza Pepperoni or Pineapple (in other words Agent Vs Agent-less)
Engineering 13/11/2024

Pizza Pepperoni or Pineapple (in other words Agent Vs Agent-less)

Agent or agentless? Discover the benefits agents bring to and FinOps, deep metrics to real-time insights enhanced security.

Orit Yaron
Orit Yaron
13/11/2024
EVM: How to calculate in a FinOps context
Finance & Business 10/11/2024

EVM: How to calculate in a FinOps context

Learn to calculate EVM in a FinOps context from renowned FinOps expert, Anderson Oliveira. Complete with graphs and examples.

Anderson Oliveira
Anderson Oliveira
10/11/2024
Attribute Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
Finance & Businessintegrations 04/11/2024

Attribute Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

Attribute is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace! Google Cloud customers can now enjoy easy access to the Attribute platform.

Izhak Zimmerman
Izhak Zimmerman CEO & Co-Founder
04/11/2024
Top 7 Recommended Sessions for FinOps X EU
Finance & BusinessNews 03/11/2024

Top 7 Recommended Sessions for FinOps X EU

Attending FinOps X EU? These can’t-miss sessions will provide practical examples about how to connect FinOps and costs to business outcomes.

Hili Paryenti
Hili Paryenti
03/11/2024
Attribute Mentioned in 2 Gartner® Reports as a Representative Example for Third-party Generalist Tools Category
Finance & BusinessNews 23/10/2024

Attribute Mentioned in 2 Gartner® Reports as a Representative Example for Third-party Generalist Tools Category

Attribute is a unique zero-tagging FinOps solution that optimizes business performance by aligning cloud spend with business outcomes. Attribute, a leading FinOps provider that ensures multi layer cost analysis for every dollar spent in the cloud based on newly-created data points, announced today that it has been mentioned in two Gartner reports as a Representative […]

Attribute Team
Attribute Team
23/10/2024
Starting with Business Value: Leveraging the Business Context of Cloud Costs
Finance & Business 17/10/2024

Starting with Business Value: Leveraging the Business Context of Cloud Costs

Discover how innovative FinOps approaches can help all departments across the organization make better business decisions.

Attribute Team
Attribute Team
17/10/2024
Dissecting gRPC & Google PubSub Messages in Attribute Sensor: A Journey Through the Network Stack
Engineering 09/10/2024

Dissecting gRPC & Google PubSub Messages in Attribute Sensor: A Journey Through the Network Stack

Dissecting gRPC is not a walk in the park. While adding support for Google Pub/Sub to our platform we had to jump in headfirst – this is what we learned

Matan Croitoriu
Matan Croitoriu
09/10/2024
Uncovering the Gross Margins; Cloud Cost is the Missing Link in SaaS Pricing
Finance & Business 01/10/2024

Uncovering the Gross Margins; Cloud Cost is the Missing Link in SaaS Pricing

Discover how SaaS companies can grow by focusing on pricing strategies & why accurate cloud cost tracking drives long-term profitability.

Hili Paryenti
Hili Paryenti
01/10/2024