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

Only the critical tasks that justify the cost.

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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

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.

finops-ai · consumption by model · Plain Concepts, last 30 days
ModelVendorCostShare of spendUsers
glm-5-2Forge$10,595.5437.6%154
glm-5-1Forge$6,003.6921.3%140
Claude Opus 4.8GitHub Copilot$3,335.4111.8%160
Claude Sonnet 4.6GitHub Copilot$2,663.669.5%178
Claude Sonnet 5GitHub Copilot$1,244.274.4%104
Auto: GPT-5.3-CodexGitHub Copilot$1,087.653.9%239
Real data from our own consumption. When you ask where the money goes, this is what you see: cost per model and vendor, each model's share of spend and how many people use it. The bulk of the work already runs on compressed models; Frontier models are kept for what justifies them.
finops-ai · control panel
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Administration

Centralise models, permissions, policies and provisioning in one place.

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Monitoring

Live consumption by team, tool and workflow. You see who spends and on what.

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Traceability

Which model answered, on which task and with what result. Every call, logged.

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Cost analysis

Drill down into spend by model, use case and consumption pattern.

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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