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1,000x Cheaper AI Inference: What It Would Actually Do to Your Margins
LLM Economics
Jun 25, 20264 min read

1,000x Cheaper AI Inference: What It Would Actually Do to Your Margins

Even a 1,000x cut in inference power costs would reshape AI unit economics, but only the share of your bill that is energy moves at that rate, not hardware, overhead, or provider markup.

OpenAI's Custom Chip and What It Actually Means for Your API Bill
LLM Economics
Jun 24, 20264 min read

OpenAI's Custom Chip and What It Actually Means for Your API Bill

A custom inference chip lowers what it costs OpenAI to serve a token, but your API price only drops if they pass the savings through, so model your own cost per token instead of betting on hardware headlines.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Gets Computer Use: What It Means for Agent Costs
LLM Economics
Jun 24, 20264 min read

Gemini 3.5 Flash Gets Computer Use: What It Means for Agent Costs

Putting agentic computer use in a budget-tier model can cut cost per step, but total agent cost depends on how many steps a task takes, so cheaper per token does not always mean cheaper per job.

How to Stop Your Team From Burning the AI Budget (Without Banning It)
Founder Guides
Jun 24, 20264 min read

How to Stop Your Team From Burning the AI Budget (Without Banning It)

The durable fix is not rationing tokens after the overspend, it is modeling cost per task up front so every team gets a budget tied to real unit economics.

GPU Cloud Providers in Europe 2026: The Real Cost of Data Residency
LLM Economics
Jun 23, 20264 min read

GPU Cloud Providers in Europe 2026: The Real Cost of Data Residency

European GPU clouds offer B200 and H200 capacity with EU data residency and sovereignty, but residency usually carries a price premium that you should model as part of cost per token, not treat as a free checkbox.

Custom AI Chips vs NVIDIA in 2026: What It Means for Your Inference Cost
LLM Economics
Jun 23, 20263 min read

Custom AI Chips vs NVIDIA in 2026: What It Means for Your Inference Cost

Hyperscaler custom chips like Trainium, Google TPU, Maia, and Meta MTIA are built to cut the provider's cost of serving AI, but that only lowers your bill if it shows up as a cheaper per-token price or GPU-hour rate.

Self-Hosting vs API: When Local LLMs Actually Cost Less
Founder Guides
Jun 23, 20264 min read

Self-Hosting vs API: When Local LLMs Actually Cost Less

Local open models can run inference at near-zero marginal cost when you reuse hardware you already own, but they are rarely truly free once you count electricity, throughput limits, and engineering time.

Oracle Cloud GPU Pricing in 2026: H100 vs H200 vs B200 Per-Hour Cost
LLM Economics
Jun 23, 20263 min read

Oracle Cloud GPU Pricing in 2026: H100 vs H200 vs B200 Per-Hour Cost

Oracle Cloud prices H100, H200, and B200 GPUs at different per-hour rates, but the cheapest choice depends on your model size and utilization, not on which chip is newest.

TPU 8i vs NVIDIA Rubin and B200: Cost Per Token for LLM Inference (2026)
LLM Economics
Jun 23, 20264 min read

TPU 8i vs NVIDIA Rubin and B200: Cost Per Token for LLM Inference (2026)

The accelerator with the best benchmark is not always the cheapest per token, because cost per token depends on price per hour, real throughput, and how much migration and lock-in you have to amortize.

NVIDIA B200 Cloud Pricing in 2026: How to Compare Per-Hour GPU Costs
LLM Economics
Jun 23, 20263 min read

NVIDIA B200 Cloud Pricing in 2026: How to Compare Per-Hour GPU Costs

B200 rental prices vary widely across clouds, so the number that matters is not dollars per hour but dollars per million tokens once you factor in throughput and utilization.

AI Pricing Is Going Up: Why Today's Cheap LLM Costs Won't Last
Pricing Strategy
Jun 23, 20264 min read

AI Pricing Is Going Up: Why Today's Cheap LLM Costs Won't Last

Today's AI prices are partly subsidized by investors chasing market share, so as that money tightens, per-token prices and tiers can climb. Build your margins for the expensive future, not the cheap present.

LLM Inference Cost at Scale: Napkin Math for Founders
LLM Economics
Jun 23, 20264 min read

LLM Inference Cost at Scale: Napkin Math for Founders

To estimate LLM inference cost, multiply tokens per request by requests per month by your blended price per million tokens, then stress-test each assumption before you trust the total.

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