New From Finout: Introducing Dictionary Virtual Tags

AI moves fast. Your cost allocation needs to keep up. There's a sentence I keep hearing from FinOps teams at ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Jul 7, 2026 5 min

Govern AI at the Gateway, Not on Every Laptop

For months, teams have been quietly duct-taping the same thing together: a way to put Claude Code behind a ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Jul 5, 2026 7 min

5 Open-Source Tools to Control Your AI API Costs at the Code Level

If you're building with LLMs, you already know the bill is climbing. Enterprise generative AI spending ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Jul 2, 2026 13 min

Your AI Storage Bill Is the Cost No One Is Watching

Every FinOps team in the world is staring at the same line item right now: GPU. Inference spend, training ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Jun 22, 2026 7 min

Anthropic Just Launched Managed Agents. Let's Talk About How We're Going to Pay for This.

Anthropic dropped Claude Managed Agents this week. It's genuinely impressive — fully managed runtime for ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Jun 10, 2026 6 min

New From Finout: Introducing Finout's Agents

The mandate hasn't changed: Own every dollar of cloud and infrastructure spend, catch waste before the CFO ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Jun 4, 2026 7 min

New From Finout: A Chatbot Without Instructions Is Just a Chatbot

It can answer. It can summarize. It can sound impressively confident about your cloud bill. What it can't do ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Jun 4, 2026 2 min

Claude Pricing in 2026 for Individuals, Organizations, and Developers

Anthropic Claude is a family of large language models (LLMs) designed for natural language understanding, ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Jun 1, 2026 13 min

Cloud Vendors Finally Agreed on Commitments. AI Vendors Didn't.

A 2026 follow-up to my RIP RIs piece — because the story didn't end where I thought it would.

AL Asaf Liveanu

May 27, 2026 9 min

What the Latest AI Cost Disasters Are Teaching FinOps Teams — 5 Lessons From the Trenches

A $30,000 surprise that was supposed to be impossible In April 2026, an AWS customer ran a few experiments on ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

May 24, 2026 15 min