Your AI development is already running up the bill

Scaling agents and long contexts drives spend up. The way out is routing every task to the right model and watching every token.

Scaling AI across engineering can multiply your bill by five

At Plain Concepts we have watched clients quintuple their AI spend the moment these uses go from a couple of teams to the whole organisation. And you rarely need a Frontier model to handle most of those tasks.

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Agents, long contexts and automation do not come free

Once code generation, documentation, testing and chained automations are in play, consumption stops being a small line in the budget. The question is no longer whether to use AI, but on what criteria. With no routing, no token control and no FinOps, spend gets away from you before you see it coming.

The cost of AI across the development lifecycle

How we solve it

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Hybrid AI model strategy

Hybrid model strategy

Every task goes to the model it deserves: CompactifAI for day-to-day work, Frontier for what is critical.

Platform for controlling AI spend

A platform to control spend

Administration, monitoring, traceability and cost per workflow, all in a single dashboard.

Sovereign deployment in Europe

Sovereign deployment

On the Multiverse API, in your cloud or on your own infrastructure. Running entirely in Europe.

The expensive model only when it genuinely pays off

Most day-to-day work, such as refactors, tests, documentation and routine changes, can be handled by Multiverse Computing’s compressed models at a fraction of the cost, without reaching for a Frontier model every time. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and the rest are kept for the work that actually needs them.

CompactifAI

The idea, in one sentence: 8 out of 10 tasks are handled by the compressed model, and the Frontier model only steps in when it genuinely pays off.

Multiverse · CompactifAI

The bulk of the work. Compressed models, fast and cheap.

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Frontier

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  • Routing by task type, criticality and cost, not by guesswork.
  • Input and output tokens under control, task by task.
  • Less dependence on a single expensive provider.
  • You scale AI usage without nasty surprises in the budget.

Same work, same quality, over 80% less annual cost

Estimated annual cost for a workload of around 5 billion tokens a month (3B input and 2B output) based on public list prices.

Frontier model of referenceClaude Opus · $5 / $25 per million
€680,000
Same model, different providerGLM 5.2 · served outside Europe
€136,000
GLM 5.2 on CompactifAI€0.96 / €3.05 per million · served in the EU
€108,000 −84%
Quasar · compressedCompressed GLM 5.2, on the roadmap
€81,000 −88%

Public list prices as of July 2026, at an exchange rate of €1 = $1.1474 (ECB, 16 July 2026). Illustrative volume scenario, not binding. On SWE-bench, GLM 5.2 scores 62.1, against 63.2 for Claude Sonnet.

Models deployed wherever you decide, with the control you need for the EU AI Act

Multiverse Computing’s models are built for regulated environments and for different deployment strategies. We can run them entirely in Europe, so your data never leaves the region. More context on the framework at EU AI Act.

  • 01Multiverse API. Direct consumption, nothing to set up.
  • 02Cloud. Deployed on your hyperscaler of choice.
  • 03On-premise. On your own infrastructure, under your control.
  • 04Runs in Europe. Data never leaves the region.
  • 05Data sovereignty. Traceability and deployment designed to support EU AI Act compliance.

We tell you which model runs, for what, and what it costs

Nexus, our accelerator, gives you your own platform to manage your AI models. It does not just connect them: it governs, monitors and optimises them, and turns every interaction into information to cut costs, improve performance and scale AI adoption safely across the organisation.

Plain Concepts implements and runs the layer that governs all of this. And we are customer zero: everything on this page is already in use inside Plain Concepts, across more than 700 developers, to cut our own AI bill. No theory: FinOps applied to real usage.

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Control AI cost with the detail you expect from your cloud

Nexus panel showing token consumption, requests and cost by model

AI cannot be a black box of costs. Nexus shows consumption by model, user, project or application.

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AdministrationModels, policies and permissions in a single place.
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MonitoringReal-time consumption by team, tool or workflow.
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TraceabilityWhich model answered, when, for whom and with what result.
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Cost analysisSpend broken down by model, project or use case.
Customer benefit

Cut the AI bill and prove the return on every LLM initiative.

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Always use the most efficient model for each case

Model comparison in Nexus with requests, tokens, cost and real speed

No model wins on quality, speed and cost at once. Nexus compares their real performance in production.

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Model comparisonWhich models take the most traffic and what they cost.
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Real speedTokens per second, Time To First Token and effective throughput.
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Service qualityCatch degradations before users notice them.
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Continuous optimisationObjective data to fine-tune your applications.
Customer benefit

Cut costs without sacrificing quality and decide on data, not perceptions.

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Turn AI usage into a governed, auditable process

Nexus users view with requests and tokens by person and service

With hundreds of developers using AI daily, you need to know who does what and with which resources.

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Active usersWho uses the platform and how intensively.
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Consumption by teamSplit across departments, projects or applications.
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Full traceabilityEvery request logged for audit and compliance.
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Cost allocationConsumption tied to the unit responsible.
Customer benefit

More control, compliance and costs charged where they are generated.

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Spot problems before they turn into incidents

Nexus traffic panel with throughput, HTTP status classes and top errors

The best incident is the one that never reaches the user. Nexus watches traffic to catch anomalies and errors in time.

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Traffic analysisRequests and errors in real time.
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Service statusDistribution of HTTP responses and its impact.
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Advanced diagnosisThe most frequent exceptions and where they come from.
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Faster resolutionLess time spent locating the problem.
Customer benefit

Lower time to resolution, higher availability and a steadier experience.

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Run your AI platform as reliably as the rest of your infrastructure

Nexus operations panel with requests per second, concurrency and usage limits

Once AI is part of the SDLC, observability stops being optional. Nexus watches the health of the whole platform in real time.

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AvailabilityRequests, errors and service availability under control.
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Performancep50, p95 and p99 latency for consistent responses.
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CapacityConcurrency and usage limits, with no bottlenecks.
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ObservabilityTelemetry integrated with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
Customer benefit

Fewer production incidents and a platform ready to grow.

We look at your scenario and show you the platform in action

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We show you how much you can cut without touching your speed

We look at your current consumption, compare approaches and show you the platform in action. If you need to align the conversation internally, take the one-pager to your decision-makers.

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