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C10 — How to Build a Generative AI Cost and Usage Tracker

  • Publisher: FinOps Foundation
  • Source: How to Build a Generative AI Cost and Usage Tracker
  • Published: Not stated / not established
  • Updated: Not stated / not established
  • Accessed: 2026-10-22
  • Type: Practitioner foundation guidance
  • Evidence: opened primary page; relevant content read.

Paraphrased finding

Recommends request attribution and date-aware model pricing records; token-based inference tracking is only one part of the cost stack.

Limits

Its example prices are not used here. Example SQL is illustrative, not production-ready billing code.