Cost-Aware Culture, Year-Over-Year Results

Balaji Narayanan shares how Clari’s FinOps practice became a cross-functional team effort where visibility, finance–engineering alignment, and a culture of shared accountability create the energy to drive sustained optimization, innovation, and long-term business value.

Surging AI Costs Are Eroding Business Efficiency: New CloudZero Report

FinOps for cloud is in year 13. FinOps for AI is on day one. Cloud efficiency across all segments is down 15% year-over-year. To stay profitable, AI users need AI cost visibility.

40% Of Companies Now Spend More Than $10M A Year On AI, New Report Finds

The AI surge has put a 15% dent in Cloud Efficiency Rates, even as FinOps maturity has accelerated.

FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration

If your cloud cost desk was flipped by AI, you’re not alone. We asked 475 organizational leaders about their own experience, and we share our learnings in this new survey report.

OpenAI API Cost Per Token Explained: How to Calculate, Compare Models, And Control Your AI Costs

Confused by what the OpenAI API cost per token is? You’re not alone. Learn what it really means, why your token usage could surprise you over time, and how to optimize your OpenAI costs.

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.