Webinars Who Owns AI Costs? Why Procurement Must Lead the AI FinOps Conversation AI, AI Cost Management, FinOps Share This Article Subscribe For Updates Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend. Share This Article Subscribe For Updates Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend.
Webinars The Inference Economics Reckoning: Why Enterprise AI Costs Keep Rising as Token Prices Fall AI, Mastering AI Economics Series Share This Article Subscribe For Updates Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend. Share This Article Subscribe For Updates Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend.
Insights How AI Tokenization Works: Models, Costs, and the Hidden Economics of Token Consumption Jun 30, 2026AI, Mastering AI Economics Series Download Share This Article Subscribe For Updates Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend. Understanding AI tokenization is the foundation of effective enterprise AI cost management. As part of NPI’s Mastering AI Economics: A Procurement Leadership Series, this whitepaper explains how AI models process and bill tokens, why the cheapest model isn’t always the lowest-cost option, and how procurement teams can make smarter decisions about AI consumption before costs spiral. In this whitepaper, you’ll learn: How tokenization works and why it drives AI costs The difference between input and output tokens and why it matters Why lower-cost models can become more expensive for complex workloads How Batch API and Prompt Caching can dramatically reduce AI costs Practical guidance for selecting the right model for the right workload Download the whitepaper to build a stronger understanding of AI cost drivers and make more informed AI procurement decisions. Download Share This Article Subscribe For Updates Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend.
Insights Governing AI Token Spend: A Five-Layer Defense Framework Jun 30, 2026AI, Mastering AI Economics Series Download Share This Article Subscribe For Updates Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend. AI spending is rapidly shifting from predictable licensing to consumption-based pricing, creating new cost and governance challenges for enterprise procurement teams. As part of NPI’s Mastering AI Economics: A Procurement Leadership Series, this whitepaper introduces a practical five-layer framework for improving AI cost visibility, strengthening governance, and building leverage before AI spending outpaces oversight. In this whitepaper, you’ll learn: The five capabilities every enterprise needs to govern AI token spend Contract protections that reduce the risk of runaway AI costs How model routing can significantly lower AI spending Why traditional FinOps falls short for agentic AI workloads How to turn AI vendor repricing events into negotiation opportunities Download the whitepaper for a practical framework to help your organization gain control of AI token spend while preserving flexibility and negotiating leverage. Download Share This Article Subscribe For Updates Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend.
Webinars Managing the New Spend Frontier: AI Tokens in Procurement AI Share This Article Subscribe For Updates Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend. AI is creating an entirely new category of enterprise spend, and most procurement organizations are still learning how to manage it. Join NPI CEO Jon Winsett and Art of Procurement for a discussion on AI token economics, why traditional software procurement practices often fail in consumption-based AI environments, and what procurement leaders need to do now to gain visibility, governance, and leverage over one of the fastest-growing areas of enterprise technology spend. What You’ll Learn: How token-based pricing models work across leading AI vendors and why AI spend behaves differently than traditional software licensing The most common governance, forecasting, and budgeting challenges organizations face as AI adoption scales Why many enterprises struggle to measure AI value and control consumption before costs spiral beyond expectations Practical strategies procurement teams can use to improve visibility, strengthen governance, and create leverage in AI vendor negotiations Share This Article Subscribe For Updates Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend.