Tag: ai-cost

7 posts tagged with "ai-cost"

• AI Agent vs Flow: When Not to Build One (2026 Decision Guide)

  June 18, 2026

  When to build an AI agent and when a flow, a query, or nothing is the better tool. A 5-question decision test, worked examples, and the agent tax to budget.

• AI Cost Governance in 2026: The Spend Caps That Don't Actually Cap

  June 17, 2026

  AI cost governance in 2026: the budget you reach for first only alerts, it never stops. A vendor-by-vendor playbook on which AI spend controls hard-stop and which just notify.

• Copilot Credits Went Live: What Work IQ and Cowork Actually Cost

  June 16, 2026

  Copilot Credits billing went live June 16 across Work IQ and Cowork: the real per-call cost, the license gate, and the controls to set before July 1.

• Claude on Azure: The Marketplace Billing Trap

  May 5, 2026

  Why Microsoft for Startups credits do not cover Claude on Azure Foundry, where Claude Opus 4.7 actually deploys, and the pre-flight checks architects must run before shipping.

• Microsoft 365 Copilot ROI Calculator: The Honest Math

  April 24, 2026

  Forrester says 353% ROI. Microsoft's own RCT says 0.5 hours per week. The interactive calculator below uses RCT-grounded defaults and shows exactly which lever your business case depends on.

• Azure OpenAI PTU vs PAYG: The Real Break-Even Table

  March 5, 2026

  Break-even calculators say PTU wins at 150M tokens per month. Real-world utilization breaks that math. Here is the actual table from Microsoft's PTU throughput data, with the utilization curve most architects miss.

• AI Copilots vs Custom AI on Azure: When to Build and When to Buy

  February 25, 2026

  Real cost math comparing Microsoft Copilot at $30/user/month to Azure OpenAI at pennies per query. Decision framework for architects choosing build vs buy.