AI Cost Optimization

Reduce AI costs without compromising application quality or user experience.

AI Cost Optimization continuously analyzes your AI workloads and identifies opportunities to reduce spend across models, tokens, caching, infrastructure, and usage patterns. Instead of generic recommendations, OneLens provides actionable insights with estimated savings and clear remediation guidance.

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Why AI Cost Optimization?

AI costs grow quickly as applications scale.

Common reasons include:

• Using larger models than necessary

• Inefficient prompts

• Poor cache utilization

• Excessive output tokens

• Idle provisioned throughput

• Batch-eligible workloads running synchronously

• Outdated model versions

• Over-provisioned infrastructure

OneLens helps teams identify these opportunities early and optimize AI spend continuously.

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Optimization Categories

Recommendations are grouped into logical categories, making it easier to prioritize improvements.

• Token Optimization

• Model Optimization

• Infrastructure Optimization

• Workload Optimization

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Token Optimization

Reduce costs by improving how tokens are consumed.

Recommendations include:

Prompt Cache Optimization

Identify workloads with low cache hit rates and opportunities to improve prompt reuse.

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Output Token Optimization

Detect applications generating unnecessarily long responses that increase costs.

Identify:

• Verbose prompts

• Excessive completion lengths

• High output-to-input ratios

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Batch API Opportunities

Find workloads suitable for asynchronous batch processing to take advantage of lower pricing where supported.

Ideal for:

• Document processing

• Report generation

• Background workflows

• Bulk inference jobs

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Model Optimization

Ensure every workload uses the most cost-effective model.

Model Right-Sizing

Identify workloads where a smaller or less expensive model can deliver similar results.

Examples:

• GPT-4 → GPT-4o Mini

• Claude Opus → Claude Sonnet

• Large embedding model → Smaller embedding model

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Model Version Management

Detect deprecated or older model versions still running in production.

Stay updated with supported models while improving cost efficiency.

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Provisioned vs On-Demand Usage

Analyze traffic patterns to determine whether workloads would benefit from:

• On-Demand

• Flex

• Provisioned Throughput

This helps optimize both cost and performance.

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Infrastructure Optimization

Optimize the infrastructure supporting AI workloads.

Idle Fine-Tuned Models

Identify fine-tuned models with little or no inference traffic.

Remove unused resources and reduce operational costs.

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Endpoint Right-Sizing

Analyze throughput and request volume to recommend appropriately sized inference endpoints.

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Reserved Capacity Utilization

Detect underutilized reserved or provisioned capacity and identify opportunities to improve utilization.

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Workload Optimization

Recommendations tailored to different AI workloads.

Conversational AI

Improve:

• Cache utilization

• Model selection

• Output length

• Session efficiency

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Agentic Workflows

Optimize:

• Recursive agent loops

• Multi-step execution

• Model routing

• Token consumption per workflow

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RAG Applications

Identify opportunities to improve:

• Embedding model selection

• Chunk sizing

• Context length

• Retrieval efficiency

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Coding Assistants

Optimize:

• Model selection

• Batch execution

• Prompt reuse

• Cache effectiveness

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Document Processing

Identify batch-friendly workloads and reduce costs through asynchronous processing and optimized model selection.

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Estimated Savings

Every recommendation includes an estimate of its potential impact.

View:

• Monthly savings

• Annual savings

• Percentage reduction

• Recommendation priority

• Expected effort

This helps teams focus on changes that deliver the highest return.

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Prioritize Recommendations

Recommendations can be filtered by:

• Estimated savings

• Provider

• Team

• Project

• Environment

• Category

• Priority

This makes it easier to plan optimization initiatives across multiple teams.

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Track Optimization Progress

Monitor the status of every recommendation throughout its lifecycle.

Typical statuses include:

• Open

• Planned

• In Progress

• Completed

• Ignored

This provides visibility into realized savings and ongoing optimization efforts.

📸 Screenshot: Recommendation details

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Example Use Cases

Engineering

Reduce AI costs by selecting the right models, optimizing prompts, and improving cache efficiency.

Platform Teams

Optimize provisioned throughput, inference endpoints, and infrastructure utilization.

Product Teams

Deliver AI features at lower operating costs without affecting user experience.

Finance & FinOps

Track realized savings and measure the financial impact of optimization initiatives.

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Benefits

• Reduce AI spend without sacrificing quality.

• Identify optimization opportunities automatically.

• Prioritize recommendations based on business impact.

• Improve model and infrastructure efficiency.

• Continuously monitor AI cost optimization opportunities.

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Best Practices

• Review optimization recommendations regularly instead of waiting for monthly invoices.

• Prioritize high-impact recommendations with minimal implementation effort.

• Validate model right-sizing before rolling changes to production.

• Combine optimization insights with anomaly detection and budgets for proactive cost management.

• Track completed recommendations to measure realized savings over time.