cost-optimization

What an AI Agent Costs Per Conversation on AgentCore

You can read AgentCore's per-service rates straight off the AWS pricing page. What that page can't tell you — and what you actually need before you build a business on agents — is what one of your u

When Is Self-Hosting an LLM Cheaper Than Bedrock?

Two questions send teams down this path: "our Bedrock bill is growing, should we run this on our own GPU?" and "we fine-tuned a Llama, where does it go?" For most teams the answer to both is no, a

Cheaper Alternatives to AWS in 2026: What Each One Cuts

There is no single cheapest alternative to AWS, because AWS bills are not shaped the same way. A bill dominated by EC2 has a different answer from one dominated by egress, RDS or GPU-hours. And severa

Hetzner vs AWS: The Real Cost Difference in 2026

For a standing 8-vCPU, 16 GB server, AWS charges about $212 per month on demand and Hetzner charges €20.99, or roughly $25. That is a factor of nine, and it is not a rounding error. The gap is also no

What Is AI FinOps?

AI FinOps is the practice of making AI workload costs visible, attributable, and optimizable — applied to the specific economics of model inference, where the unit of cost is the token, not the instan

AWS Bedrock Cost Structure: What You're Actually Paying For

AWS Bedrock looks simple from the outside — call an API, get a response, pay per token. The reality is that a production Bedrock setup has several distinct cost layers, and they behave very differentl

Why Your AWS Bedrock Bill Makes No Sense (And How to Fix It)

When a startup says "our AWS bill is too high," the conversation almost always starts at the aggregate level — total monthly spend, a few large services, maybe a spike someone noticed. That's not wher

Cost optimization

What an AI Agent Costs Per Conversation on AgentCore

When Is Self-Hosting an LLM Cheaper Than Bedrock?

Cheaper Alternatives to AWS in 2026: What Each One Cuts

Hetzner vs AWS: The Real Cost Difference in 2026

What Is AI FinOps?

AWS Bedrock Cost Structure: What You're Actually Paying For

Why Your AWS Bedrock Bill Makes No Sense (And How to Fix It)