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Content · AUG 31, 2026
Your Bailian bill is one number — you can't tell which app or model is burning the most, or why it jumped this month. Here's how to break Alibaba Model Studio (Bailian) token cost down by model, application, and input/cached/output, attribute it by cost unit, and see Volcengine, Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu Qianfan in one place too.…
Content · AUG 24, 2026
Buying Azure through a reseller (CSP)? What you see is the pay-as-you-go rate, not what you pay the reseller. Azure is the easiest of the three to connect — one service principal, no exports to set up — and a custom discount turns PAYG into what you actually owe.…
Content · AUG 24, 2026
If a reseller resold you GCP, the billing data lives in their BigQuery — mixed with every other customer — and what you pay isn't the raw number on the bill. Here's how to get a filtered BigQuery view of just your data, and use MOF to compute what you actually owe.…
Content · AUG 22, 2026
If a reseller opened your AWS account, you're a member account and the org-wide bill sits with them. But in most cases you can still export your own CUR and connect it — no reseller needed. Here's the self-test, the two situations, and the exact IAM policies.…
Content · AUG 22, 2026
Everyone assumes replacing people with AI saves money. Tokens are cheap — but the real bill hides in five places most comparisons skip. We run the numbers with Chinese salaries and Chinese model prices, using one engineering team as the worked example.…
Content · AUG 21, 2026
Most cloud cost tools quietly don't support Chinese clouds. A 2026 comparison of Western FinOps tools (Vantage, Cloudability, CloudZero, Finout, CloudHealth…) and Chinese platforms — which support Alibaba, Tencent, Volcengine & Huawei, pricing, self-host, and how to choose.…
Content · AUG 18, 2026
Cloud bills rarely blow up because of one big mistake. They drift upward through eight quiet leaks — here's each one, and the FinOps habit that plugs it.…
