150+ AI statistics for 2026: spend, cost, and AI ROI

150+ AI statistics for 2026 on what companies spend, what AI costs to run, and the ROI they're actually getting, with a takeaway for finance leaders in every section.

Best LLM gateways in 2026: 30+ AI gateways compared on cost control

An LLM gateway is the one chokepoint every AI call crosses, and the cheapest place to meter AI spend. This guide compares 30+ gateways on the axis others skip: which ones actually let you see, allocate, and control what AI costs you.

CoreWeave pricing in 2026: every GPU rate and what a node really costs

CoreWeave sells GPUs by the node, not the chip: $49.24/hr for an 8x H100 ($6.16 per GPU), up to $68.80 for a B200. Here's every published rate, what a real deployment costs per month, and why utilization moves the number more than the sticker.

n8n pricing in 2026: every plan, the execution math, and what AI agents change

n8n bills by workflow execution, not by seat: €24/mo for 2,500 runs, €60 for 10,000, €800 self-hosted, free Community Edition. Here's every plan, the per-run math, and what wiring AI agents in does to the meter.

AI cost calculator: estimate your total spend

Three people give you three different AI bills, and none is the real number. Here's the four-lane worksheet — seats, API tokens, cloud AI services, and GPU — plus three correction factors and 2026 benchmarks to size your total AI spend.

GPT-6 Astra pricing: What OpenAI’s new flagship costs in 2026

OpenAI's new flagship reasoning model lists at $10/$50 per million tokens, 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol and level with Claude Fable 5.1. Here's the full rate card, the fine print, and how to decide before Sol's promo ends November 21.

Indirect costs in 2026: AI spend is the new overhead (and how to allocate it)

Are hidden costs killing or distorting your SaaS margins? Here’s how to find (and eliminate) the indirect SaaS costs destroying your bottom line.

LLM token cost: pricing per token explained

LLM token cost is the per-token price a provider charges to read or write text, quoted per million tokens with output priced ~5x input: the unit every AI invoice is denominated in, and a poor unit for deciding anything.

AI usage tracking: Monitor spend by team, feature & model

AI usage tracking measures who and what consumes AI across your company, by team, feature, and model, then converts usage into spend and cost per unit of work, putting names on the totals provider consoles leave anonymous.

AI gross margin: how AI spend hits SaaS profitability

AI gross margin is what's left of SaaS profitability once inference, routing, and AI infrastructure land in cost of revenue: a real, measurable compression that's manageable for companies that can see their cost to serve.