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  1. AI spend management: how to see and control what your company spends on AI.A guide to AI spend management: where AI spend hides beyond the invoices, how to see it by team, project and agent, how to cap it, how to report it to finance and how to choose a platform.Guide 11 minTomie Zhang
  2. What does an AI agent cost to run, per month and per task?An agent's run cost is tokens per task, times the model's price, times tasks. Worked examples from public price lists, and the number to govern.Tool 5 minNovamind Labs
  3. How to set token budgets and spending limits for AI agents.A spending limit an agent cannot exceed sits in the path its calls take. How to set caps by organisation, team and agent, with a named approver.Guide 7 minTomie Zhang
  4. AI spending limits compared: what each provider lets you cap.OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, AWS, Cursor and GitHub Copilot all let you limit AI spend now. What each one caps, what happens at the limit, and how to set one budget above them.Data 7 minTomie Zhang
  5. How to set your company's AI budget for 2027.AI budget planning for 2027, step by step: start from what you spend today, split it by how AI is bought, forecast from drivers, cap teams and agents, and review it monthly. With a worksheet to copy.Guide 8 minJerry Yuan
  6. FinOps for AI: what changes when the bill is tokens.FinOps for AI uses the FinOps Foundation's framework on a bill priced per token and per call. What changes in allocation, forecasting, budgets and anomaly response, with a practical chapter for each.Guide 10 minTomie Zhang

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