Glossary term

FinOps for AI

Application of FinOps practices to understand, allocate, optimize, and govern AI usage, cost, and business value.

Not a separate discipline from cloud FinOps — an extension of it, applied to a cost surface (tokens, GPUs, inference) that behaves differently enough from generic cloud spend to need its own vocabulary. Most of the "cost" half of this site's glossary sits under this umbrella.