Flexera announced a comprehensive set of AI Cost Management capabilities in its Flexera One platform.
This solution is purpose-built to deliver visibility, governance and optimization of AI spend across the full technology stack.
Flexera offers the only AI cost management platform that spans agents, models, data, and compute. The platform tracks consumption-based AI costs, including tokens, credits, and more within a single, unified view. By connecting these layers, Flexera delivers a holistic understanding of how AI is used and where costs are incurred.
“AI in the enterprise has shifted from productivity to co-worker,” said Becky Trevino, chief product officer, Flexera. “Today's AI isn’t just answering questions. AI is reasoning, retrying, and orchestrating. As we enter this new phase of AI, the cost economics are what's holding back AI adoption. When the cost of AI exceeds revenue growth, the business breaks and AI transformation stalls.”
“We need a new AI operating model where we understand the complete economics of the AI stack and we enable AI optimization to work in our favor. Flexera enables this new operating model by giving our users the ability to measure and benchmark usage and optimize consumption costs to affordably run AI at scale,” she added.
Flexera also announced FinOps Assist, an AI-powered FinOps assistant, alongside new automation features at FinOps X. Instead of static dashboards, through FinOps Assist teams can query their cost data in natural language to receive actionable insights and accelerate decision making. Flexera also expanded automation in the Flexera One platform, so organizations can act on savings opportunities automatically, spend less time on manual analysis, and capture cost savings faster.
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