AI Cost Playbook : FinOps for LLM systems, token economics, caching, routing, and cost governance
Language: English
Published by Packt Publishing Sep 2026, 2026
- Softcover
- New
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermanyAHA-BUCH GmbH
AbeBooks seller since August 14, 2006
Condition: New
£ 37.53
Quantity: 2 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Neuware - As LLM applications scale, controlling their unpredictable usage-based costs becomes critical.
Seller Inventory # 9781808822155
- Title
- AI Cost Playbook : FinOps for LLM systems, token economics, caching, routing, and cost governance
- Author
- Caio Incau
- Publisher
- Packt Publishing Sep 2026
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1808822153
- ISBN 13
- 9781808822155
- Item weight
- 364 grams
- Dimensions
- 235x191x11 mm
Bring FinOps discipline to production LLM systems by measuring AI spend, optimizing token usage, and building cost controls that scale with your applications
Key Features
- Build tokenwatch to measure, attribute, and optimize production LLM costs
- Reduce AI spend using caching, batching, model routing, and RAG optimization
- Establish budgets, quotas, forecasting, and accountability for sustainable AI
Book Description
LLM applications introduce a new kind of cloud economics. Costs are usage-based, model-dependent, and influenced by everything from prompt length and caching to RAG pipelines and autonomous agent loops. As grows, engineering teams need more than isolated cost-cutting tricks; they need FinOps for LLM systems.
The AI Cost Playbook shows you how to apply financial accountability and engineering discipline to production AI. You’ll build tokenwatch, a Python-based cost observability and optimization toolkit, while learning to meter tokens, attribute spend, and calculate costs per request, user, and feature.
You’ll then reduce unnecessary spend through prompt optimization, caching, batch processing, model routing and cascades, RAG optimization, and agent cost controls. You’ll also evaluate the break-even economics of self-hosting and learn how to forecast future AI expenditure.
Finally, you’ll turn optimization into an operating discipline by establishing budgets, quotas, forecasting, and cost accountability. With configurable pricing rather than hardcoded model costs, the techniques remain useful as providers, models, and pricing evolve.
What you will learn
- Measure token usage and attribute LLM costs accurately
- Calculate AI costs per request, user, and product feature
- Optimize prompts to reduce unnecessary token consumption
- Use prompt caching and calculate its break-even point
- Cut workload costs with batching and model routing
- Optimize RAG pipelines and control agent-related costs
- Evaluate the economics of APIs versus self-hosted models
- Build budgets, quotas, forecasts, and AI cost governance
Who this book is for
This book is for AI engineers, ML engineers, software engineers, platform engineers, technical leads, engineering managers, architects, and FinOps professionals responsible for building or operating LLM applications. It will also benefit technology leaders responsible for AI infrastructure and API spending who want to understand the economics behind production AI systems and establish better cost controls. Familiarity with LLM applications and basic Python will help readers get the most from the implementation-focused sections.
Table of Contents
- The AI Bill Shock
- Token Economics 101
- Measuring First: Token Metering and Cost Attribution
- Unit Economics: Cost per Request, User, and Feature
- Prompt Engineering for Cost
- Prompt Caching: Mechanics, Hit Rates, and Break-Even
- Batch Processing and Async Workloads
- Model Routing and Cascades
- RAG Cost Optimization
- Agents: The Cost Multiplier
- Self-Hosting Break-Even: Quantization, GPUs, and Serverless Inference
- Governance: Budgets, Quotas, and Cost Accountability
- Negotiating and Forecasting
- Final Project: Full Tokenwatch Integration
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping rates from Germany to U.S.A.
| Item | 7 to 10 business days | 5 to 7 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 30.00 | £ 38.57 |
Payment methods
- Bank Wire Transfer
- Check
- Paypal
Store description
Das Unternehmen AHA-BUCH GmbH: Seit der Gründung von AHA-BUCH im Juli 2005 ist unser Hauptziel, zufriedenen Kunden so schnell und so preisgünstig wie möglich ihren Bücherwunsch zu erfüllen. Unsere Firma beschäftigt 16 Mitarbeiter, die nur ein Ziel kennen: den Kunden und seine Wünsche! Auf über 3700 m2 Fläche haben wir über 100.000 Bücher, Modernes Antiquariat und Spiele auf Lager.
Specialty
Kinderbücher & Kinderhör Casetten, German Books, Software, Natur & Tiere, Ratgeber, Sachbücher, Englische Bücher, Medizin & Gesundheit, Universität & StudiumSeller's business information
AHA-BUCH GmbH
Garlebsen 48
Einbeck, Germany 37574
Terms of sale
Imprint
Seller Info:
AHA-BUCH GmbH
represented by the managing director Christel Glass
Garlebsen 48
37574 Einbeck
Deutschland
Telefon: 055639996039
Telefax: 055639995974
E-Mail: abebooks@aha-buch.de
USt-IdNr.: DE261904229
registered at Commercial register Amtsgerichtes Göttingen
Handelsregisternummer HRB 200691
Alternative dispute resolution:
The European Commission provides a platform for out-of-court online dispute resolution (ODR platform), which can be accessed under https://ec.europa.eu/odr.
We have been a member of the "FairCommerce" initiative since 25.05.2018.
For more information, see www.fair-commerce.de.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.
Shipping terms
We ship your order after we received them
for articles on hand latest 24 hours,
for articles with overnight supply latest 48 hours.
In case we need to order an article from our supplier our dispatch time depends on the reception date of the articles, but the articles will be shipped on the same day.
Our goal is to send the ordered articles in the fastest, but also most efficient and secure way to our customers.