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AI TCO & Usage
Understand and manage total costs and usage across the AI investment lifecycle
Transparency enables strategic AI investments
AI is a top strategic priority, with 57% of CIOs being tasked to lead AI strategies. Yet, as AI spending accelerates—growing at 2x the rate of overall digital technology investments—over 90% of CIOs admit that managing costs limits their ability to unlock value from AI.
For organizations to adopt, scale, and manage AI initiatives sustainably and unlock their full value, they need clear visibility into AI TCO (total cost of ownership) and consumption—empowering smarter financial decisions and confident AI investments.
Critical capabilities
Whether you’re looking to get started with AI in your organization, or are looking to understand your AI costs better, IBM Apptio’s AI TCO & Usage solution is a powerful tool for any organization looking to get the most value from their AI initiatives.
Critical capabilities
Whether you’re looking to get started with AI in your organization, or are looking to understand your AI costs better, IBM Apptio’s AI TCO & Usage solution is a powerful tool for any organization looking to get the most value from their AI initiatives.
AI cost transparency and allocation
Establish visibility with continuous tracking and allocation of AI spend across cloud, labor, infrastructure, and vendor layers’
Get cross-functional transparency across the full lifecycle of AI investments
Help CIOs, business leaders, and solution owners understand the impact of spend across the full AI lifecycle.
Track and evaluate AI usage
- Understand AI usage trends by tracking input and output token consumption to avoid bill shock and predict future usage
- Get ahead of AI sprawl by identifying opportunities to consolidate or retire models or solutions with low usage.
Enable responsible AI adoption
- Identify inefficiencies between AI spend and usage by adjusting investments to minimize areas where spend and usage do not align
- Encourage accountability by increasing business unit awareness of costs and usage to ensure sustainable AI adoption
Cross-organizational collaboration
When leaders lack a unified understanding of AI spend, they lack the visibility needed for responsible AI consumption.
Full transparency into total cost of ownership, usage, and unit economics is critical to tracking and managing AI spend across business units and stakeholders. All parts of the organization must work together to make smart AI decisions that ensure business value is delivered.
CIOs and C-suite executives
Seek top-level financial visibility & justification into IT costs, including AI spend, to align on strategic priorities
Business and solution leaders
Require domain-specific cost transparency to understand how AI spend impacts their own bottom-line.
AI and data science teams
Require transparency into the cost and usage efficiency of AI models and workloads.
IT Finance
Needs granular, AI cost visibility to manage IT budgets, ensure accountable chargeback, and support cost optimization efforts.
AI creates questions – and you need answers
IBM Apptio’s AI TCO & Usage solution gives your organization the clarity, transparency, and control it needs to manage AI at scale. Bring all your AI financials into focus so you can invest with confidence. AI is the future, and IBM Apptio ensures you make it a financially sustainable one.
- Cost transparency & allocation
- Usage & consumption
- Responsible adoption
Answers questions like:
- What is the TCO of all my AI investments?
- Which components, such as AI models, solutions, or infrastructure, are driving the most cost?
- What are the unit costs of the AI solutions we deploy?
Answers questions like:
- How is AI being consumed across models, solutions, and business units?
- What is the ratio of AI input vs output tokens?
- Are there trends in adoption and usage that could indicate inefficiencies or unexpected cost drivers?
Answers questions like:
- Which business units are consuming the most AI resources?
- Do we have redundant AI models or applications that we could retire?
- What AI solutions can we scale across other parts of the organization?
Smart AI investments start with understanding their total cost of ownership
Your organization is racing to adopt AI, but do you know which models are worth the investment? Or which business units are driving the most value from AI tools? IBM Apptio’s AI TCO & Usage solution answers these questions with insights into costs, usage patterns, and adoption trends. Make smarter AI investments with full financial transparency.