ACORN GLOBAL · ENGINEERING FIELD GUIDE · AI ECONOMICS
Find AI cost leaks without guesswork
Price lists alone do not explain operating cost. Requests, tokens, retries and useful outcomes all matter.
Détecter les coûts IA — mesures vérifiables, aucune garantie ni résultat client inventé.
Look for these observable signals
- More tool or model calls than successful user outcomes
- Token usage grows while quality stays constant
- Retries or repeated context transfers dominate costs
A REPRODUCIBLE METHOD
Four steps to a useful baseline
Choose one representative workflow and a declared measurement period.
Record total calls, failed calls and retries without collecting private inputs.
Enter your actual per-million token rates and token assumptions.
Compare marginal remediation costs with measured, not promised, savings.
Evidence worth retaining
Provider invoice or usage export under your control, bounded request counts and a dated baseline.
Limit: The free calculator uses visitor-supplied prices and excludes hosting, taxes and contracts; no ROI is guaranteed.
If required measurements are unavailable, record them as not measured. Never replace an unknown value with zero or claim a successful repair without a verified readback.