For enterprise AI and IT leads

From AI idea to governed production in 8 steps

Design the workflow, know its cost, set your rules, enforce them at the gateway and prove it. One loop, your data stays in your tenant.

  • Priced every step before you build
  • Governed by rules you approve, enforced at the gateway
  • Proven with a report that grades its own evidence
Example used on this page: A customer support assistant that answers tickets from your product documentation (RAG), with an agent reviewing sensitive replies.

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1Design

Describe the workflow, get it priced

Type what the assistant should do, or start from an example.

  • Each step mapped to a cost engine
  • Monthly cost with and without AICost

Classify ticket, search product docs, draft answer, agent review, send.

2Design

Adjust until the numbers and controls fit

Change the model, volume or review rate. Turn governance controls on or off.

  • Cost and governance side by side
  • Save the design to your account

Route routine tickets to a cheaper model; keep PII replies on human review.

3Assess

Connect Microsoft 365 and Azure, read-only

Your Microsoft admin approves read-only access once, and adds 2 read roles in Azure.

  • Every AI app in use, sanctioned or not
  • Your own Azure OpenAI and Foundry models, with real spend and token use

Finds ChatGPT and Copilot Studio signed in with company accounts.

Connect Microsoft 365 →Your Azure AI spend
4Assess

See findings and answer what data cannot

Read the results, then a short interview for the rest.

  • Findings per module, with the fix
  • Gaps listed, never counted as a pass

An agent identity holds admin access; most service identities have no named owner.

Your resultsShort interview
5Enforce

Decide each app and approve your AI policy

Approve, tolerate or block each app. Answer 6 key questions. Approve.

  • A versioned AI policy in force today
  • Every app re-checked against your rules

Block personal AI accounts; no vendor training on company data.

Decide and set policy
6Enforce

Enforce it at your gateway, add your workflow

Download the gateway config. Add the designed workflow to governance.

  • LiteLLM or Cloudflare AI Gateway rules
  • Budgets and breakers on the workflow

PII blocked at the gateway; daily spend breaker on the support assistant.

Gateway configAdd your workflow
7Prove

Share a one-page report

Print or save it as PDF for your CIO, auditor or board.

  • What we found, what to fix first, who and when
  • Every line graded: observed, stated or not observed

Top fix this week: replace the admin grant on the agent identity.

Your report
8Prove

Stay governed, automatically

Pick weekly or monthly checks and where alerts go.

  • New AI apps and findings flagged
  • Email, Slack or Teams alert only when something changes

Monday alert: 1 new AI app found in the tenant.

Continuous checks

Why it holds up

126 cost and governance enginesthe same engines run in your agents over MCP
Read-only by designno mail or file content, revoke any time in Entra
Metadata onlysettings and app names, never content; identifiers hashed

Start with one workflow

Bring the workflow you most want in production. We price it, govern it and show you the report.

📖 Data sources & methodology 239 text models · 9 embeddings · 44 vision · 62 audio · 8 vector DBs across 10 vendor pages · last verified 2026-10-19

Methodology

  • All prices are USD per 1 million tokens, current as of 2026-10-19.
  • Vendor-published values have no mark. Inferred/extrapolated values are marked with * and listed below.
  • Batch API discounts are 50% off standard rates across providers that offer Batch mode.
  • Prompt caching discounts vary by provider (typically 80-90% off cached input tokens).
  • Regional data-residency surcharges (Anthropic 1.1x, OpenAI 1.1x, Google regional tiers) are NOT included in base rates.
  • Long-context pricing tiers apply when input exceeds model threshold.
  • Embedding prices are input-only (no output tokens generated).

Primary sources

Last-verified date is the most recent successful daily snapshot (aicost_pricing_snapshots) or, when no snapshot exists yet, the latest successful crawler run (aicost_crawler_runs). 10 of 10 vendors are currently verified. Aggregator services (TokenCost, AI Pricing Guru, etc.) are not listed.

Anthropic
2026-10-19
https://www.anthropic.com/pricing
Daily snapshot since Sep 2023 · 705 days captured
Anthropic Docs
2026-10-19
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing
Daily snapshot since Sep 2023 · 705 days captured
OpenAI
2026-10-19
https://openai.com/api/pricing/
Daily snapshot since Sep 2023 · 706 days captured
Google AI
2026-10-19
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
Daily snapshot since Dec 2023 · 681 days captured
Google Vertex
2026-10-19
https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing
Daily snapshot since Dec 2023 · 681 days captured
DeepSeek
2026-10-19
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
Daily snapshot since May 2024 · 620 days captured
xAI
2026-10-19
https://x.ai/api
Daily snapshot since Nov 2024 · 538 days captured
Mistral
2026-10-19
https://mistral.ai/pricing
Daily snapshot since Dec 2023 · 679 days captured
Cohere
2026-10-19
https://cohere.com/pricing
Daily snapshot since Sep 2023 · 705 days captured

Inferred values (marked with * in calculator tables)

Derived from industry conventions, not directly published by the vendor. Typical conventions: cached input = 10% of base (90% off), Batch API = 50% of base (50% off).

Vendor / Model Field Why it’s inferred
Anthropic — Claude Sonnet 4.6 cachedInput Derived at 10% of input rate — Anthropic publishes 90% cache-hit discount on this tier.
Anthropic — Claude Sonnet 4.5 cachedInput Derived at 10% of input rate; same 90% cache-hit convention as Sonnet 4.6.
Anthropic — Claude Sonnet 4.5 batchInput Derived at 50% of standard input — Anthropic documents uniform 50% Batch discount.
Anthropic — Claude Sonnet 4.5 batchOutput Derived at 50% of standard output — Anthropic documents uniform 50% Batch discount.
Anthropic — Claude Haiku 4.5 cachedInput Derived at 10% of input rate — Anthropic 90% cache-hit discount convention.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Mini cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — OpenAI documents automatic 90% discount on cache hits across GPT-5.x tier.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Nano cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — OpenAI 90% cache-hit convention.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Nano batchInput Derived at 50% of input — OpenAI Batch API uniform 50% discount.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Nano batchOutput Derived at 50% of output — OpenAI Batch API uniform 50% discount.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Pro cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — OpenAI 90% cache-hit convention.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Pro batchInput Derived at 50% of input — OpenAI Batch API uniform 50% discount.
OpenAI — GPT-5.4 Pro batchOutput Derived at 50% of output — OpenAI Batch API uniform 50% discount.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 cachedInput Derived at 10% of input; no residency uplift.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5 cachedInput Derived at 10% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5 batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5 batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5.5 Pro cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — OpenAI does not publish a cached rate for *-pro models; using the family convention.
OpenAI — GPT-5.5 Pro batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5.5 Pro batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 Pro cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — pro-tier convention.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 Pro batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5.2 Pro batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5.1 batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5.1 batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5 Pro batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5 Pro batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
OpenAI — GPT-5 Nano cachedInput Derived at 10% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5 Nano batchInput Derived at 50% of input.
OpenAI — GPT-5 Nano batchOutput Derived at 50% of output.
Google — Gemini 3 Flash cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — Google caching discount convention ~90%.
Google — Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — Google caching convention.
Google — Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite batchInput Derived at 50% of input — Google Batch API uniform 50% discount.
Google — Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite batchOutput Derived at 50% of output — Google Batch API uniform 50% discount.
Google — Gemini 2.5 Pro cachedInput Derived at 10% of input.
Google — Gemini 2.5 Flash cachedInput Derived at 10% of input.
Google — Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite cachedInput Derived at 10% of input — Google caching convention.
Google — Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite batchInput Derived at 50% of input — Google Batch API uniform 50% discount.
Google — Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite batchOutput Derived at 50% of output — Google Batch API uniform 50% discount.
xAI — Grok 4 (legacy) cachedInput Extrapolated at 25% of base.

Pricing is cross-verified against the LiteLLM community registry when available. Daily snapshots are kept in aicost_pricing_snapshots; every change is logged to aicost_price_changelog with old & new values for full audit trail. Read the full methodology →