{"id":124654,"date":"2025-09-01T10:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124654\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:41:09","slug":"vendor-pricing-experiments-leave-cios-ai-costs-in-flux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124654\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendor pricing experiments leave CIOs\u2019 AI costs in flux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition, CIOs should set budget limits when employees are working with use-based AI tools because API use can drive huge, unexpected costs, Carlson says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRequire software developers using a model for coding to be an active participant in the process and provide approval along the way,\u201d he adds. \u201cGiving blanket approval for a model to operate unsupervised can lead to a situation where a model continues to troubleshoot a single line of code for hours, without success, all the while charging for each identical API call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Software vendor Appfire uses a variety of AI products and has generally focused on contracts to limit price variations, and it has alerts in place when employees interact with use-based AI tools, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/edfrederici\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Frederici<\/a>, CTO there. The company has observed recent pricing variability and experimentation from its AI vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition, CIOs should set budget limits when employees are working with use-based AI tools because API use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-124654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}