Data
$397 to $13 million: the public record of software prices
PriceProof turns USAspending awards into a checkable record of what US agencies paid for enterprise software, from Tableau at $397 to a $13 million contract.
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14 stories tagged finops.
Engineering
How to estimate an AI API bill before you ship
Two million output tokens a day costs $20 on GPT-6.1 Sol and $100 on Astra. Here is the arithmetic, from list price to a monthly bill.
AI
Microsoft Copilot super app bets on code and agents
Copilot super app bundles chat, code, and agents. Microsoft's usage-based billing for agentic features changes cost planning for every IT team.
Snowflake
Snowflake per-user quotas GA: the AI credit kill switch
Admins can now set daily and monthly AI credit limits per person in Snowflake, with GA per-user quotas blocking overspend within minutes.
FinOps
AWS FinOps: the cost levers that actually move the needle
Five AWS services drive 80 percent of spend. Rightsizing, commitment discounts and storage tiering pull hardest, and the FinOps Agent automates the triage.
FinOps
GitHub FinOps: Actions minutes, Copilot seats and the cost of AI coding at scale
A dev team's GitHub bill has four parts: Actions, Copilot, Codespaces and Packages. AI agents multiply the Actions bill. The levers are runner and seat audits.
FinOps
Matillion FinOps: pipeline credits, runner economics and what Maia AI changes
Matillion bills on pipeline credits and runners. The three levers are pipeline efficiency, runner right-sizing and scheduling. Maia AI adds a new cost line.
FinOps
FinOps explained: every stage, every action, and where AI agents fit
Three phases and 22 capabilities make up FinOps for cloud and SaaS spend, and AI agents now automate nearly half of them.
FinOps
Postgres FinOps: from self-managed to serverless, what hosting actually costs
Running Postgres costs from $15 per month on RDS to tens of thousands self-managed. The three levers are right-sizing, storage tiering and connection pooling.
FinOps
Power BI FinOps: Pro licenses, Premium capacity and the Fabric cost model explained
Pro seats, Premium and Fabric SKUs can turn a $10 Power BI tool into a six-figure bill. License and capacity audits are the levers.
FinOps
Snowflake FinOps: credits, warehouses and the cost controls that work
Compute credits, storage and serverless drive Snowflake bills. Right-sizing, resource monitors and auto-suspend keep spend predictable.
Snowflake
Snowflake Adaptive Compute changes AWS cost models
GA on AWS in six regions, Snowflake Adaptive Compute brings query-level billing and a 1.2x benchmark edge over Gen2 warehouses.
Snowflake
Snowflake Gen2 warehouses: faster compute you have to opt into
Snowflake Gen2 standard warehouses run on faster hardware and finish most queries quicker, but they bill at a higher credit rate and you often have to switch with a SQL clause. Whether they save money depends entirely on whether the speedup beats the rate.
Snowflake
Snowflake warehouse sizing: stop paying for idle compute
Snowflake warehouse sizing sets your credit burn: each size up doubles credits per hour, so a 4XL costs 128 credits per hour against an XS at 1. Right-size by workload, not by habit.