Oct 5, 2026FinOps for AI in 2026: 98% Manage Token Spend, 3 in 4 Can't Prove the Value, GPUs Run at 5%, and FOCUS Gets a Token Column in 1.5
The AI cost ledger as of October 2026: State of FinOps 2026 (1,192 practitioners, 98 percent manage AI spend, up from 31 percent in 2024), the Tokenomics Foundation finding that three in four enterprises cannot prove AI outcomes to the CFO, a per-million-token price table for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek with cache and batch multipliers, a 20-step agent loop at $1.58 uncached and $0.42 cached, the FOCUS 1.2 to 1.5 roadmap and who exports which version, LiteLLM and Cloudflare budgets, Cast AI's 5 percent GPU utilisation, and $0.0037 of model cost inside a $0.99 resolution.
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