FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration

AI Vendor Lock-In: How AI Is Creating A New Dependency Problem

Building AI from scratch is costly and slow. Plugging into third-party AI platforms is faster, but can also lead to AI vendor lock-in. Here’s how you escape that without slowing innovation.

AI Is Forcing A Return To Hybrid And Multi-Cloud (Here’s What To Do Now)

Many of the same teams that spent years consolidating onto a single cloud are rethinking their stack. Here’s why hybrid and multi-cloud are back, how AI factors into it, and what you can do moving forward.

How To Calculate Customer Retention Cost in 2026: The Hidden SaaS Metric

Discover what customer retention cost is, how to calculate it, retention cost examples, and how you can improve customer retention costs.

Track OpenAI Spend: Explain Where Your OpenAI Budget Goes

Tracking your OpenAI spend is possible, even predictable. But you’ll need to treat it with the same precision you apply to cloud compute and storage cost management. Here’s how.

Webinar Recap: What It Really Takes To Make AI Profitable

In this CloudZero webinar recap, finance and FinOps leaders explain why AI spend breaks forecasting models, how to establish ownership, and which unit economics actually make AI investments predictable and profitable.

Oracle Cloud Pricing: A Comprehensive Guide To Oracle Cloud Costs

Need to optimize Oracle Cloud costs, but not sure how OCI pricing works? CloudZero brings you a comprehensive guide.

Gemini Cost Per API Call in 2026: What You’ll Actually Pay (And How to Control It)

More SaaS teams are asking, “What is our Gemini cost per API call?” Here’s why, and how that is improving their AI ROI (so you can, too!)

From Trough to Traction: 10 Real-World Lessons in Cloud and AI Efficiency

From the “trough of lost innovation” to the rise of AI-driven spend, Erik Peterson breaks down 10 real-world lessons that show why cloud and AI efficiency is now a core engineering discipline — not a finance afterthought.

AI In 2026: Autonomous, Invisible, Expensive

AI will get more autonomous, less visible, and a lot more expensive in 2026, says CloudZero's SVP of Engineering, Bill Buckley. From agentic workflows to token-hungry swarms, here’s how to prepare your data, systems, and FinOps practice before your next AI invoice surprises you.