Cost
6 posts tagged Cost — engineering notes and field reports from the TechKis team.
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- 10 min read·AI EngineeringArchitectureSecurity
Self-hosted LLMs vs provider APIs — when data residency actually forces your hand
Self-hosting an open-weight model is usually the wrong default and occasionally the only option. Here's what genuinely forces it — regulation, contracts, volume economics — and the hybrid split most teams land on.
Read post - 9 min read·AI EngineeringEngineering PracticeEnterprise
Choosing an AI development partner — the questions that predict delivery
Case studies and logos don't predict whether an AI project ships. These questions do — about evaluation, data access, model choice, handover and run cost — plus the answers that should end the conversation.
Read post - 9 min read·AI EngineeringCostEngineering Practice
What an AI pilot actually costs — a line-item breakdown
Most AI pilot budgets are wrong because they only price the build. Here's the honest line-item breakdown — discovery, data prep, evaluation, build, inference and the run cost nobody quotes — and where pilots quietly overrun.
Read post - 10 min read·AI EngineeringObservabilityArchitecture
AI observability — logs, traces, cost and hallucinations
You can't run an LLM system on hope. Traditional observability misses the things that actually go wrong with AI: silent quality drift, runaway token cost, and confident wrong answers. Here's the observability stack an AI system needs.
Read post - 9 min read·AI EngineeringCostArchitecture
AI rate limiting and cost control — before the bill surprises you
One buggy loop or abusive user can turn an LLM feature into a five-figure invoice overnight. Rate limiting and cost control for AI aren't the same as for a normal API — here's how to cap spend without breaking the product.
Read post - 9 min read·AWSBedrockLLM Infrastructure
AWS Bedrock vs direct provider APIs — cost, lock-in and the procurement reality
When to call OpenAI and Anthropic directly versus going through AWS Bedrock — a practical breakdown of cost, latency, model availability, governance and the procurement reality that actually decides the answer on most enterprise projects.
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