As enterprises adopt more AI models, tools, and applications from different providers, costs can add up quickly. Without a clear view of where the money is going, spending can become difficult to control. Leaders need to know which teams and applications are driving costs, why spending is increasing, and where or when to intervene without slowing innovation.
Today, we are announcing Oracle Cost Advisor for AI, available in Limited Availability. This managed service gives enterprises a unified view of AI usage and spend across providers, models, tools, teams, and use cases. It connects cost data to budgets, owners, approvals, and cost centers, and recommends opportunities to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Oracle Cost Advisor for AI is initially available through Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, bringing AI cost insights into the planning and governance workflows finance teams already use. For General Availability, Oracle also plans to make these insights available in the next calendar year within ChatGPT and preferred BI tools such as custom dashboards, giving more stakeholders access through workflows relevant to their roles.
Manage AI spend across providers and teams
AI adoption often begins in separate parts of an organization. One team experiments with a model, another builds an internal assistant, developers adopt coding tools, and business teams introduce AI-enabled applications. As AI usage spreads across teams and tools, costs can surge before leaders can tell which teams and tools are driving the increase.
Oracle Cost Advisor for AI consolidates cost and usage data from initial sources including OCI Enterprise AI and tools from OpenAI and Anthropic. Organizations can analyze spend by application, workflow, owner, model, user, or tool, making it easier to identify cost drivers and areas requiring attention.
This shared view supports tighter collaboration across the enterprise. Finance teams gain budget visibility, technology and AI leaders gain portfolio-level insight, and FinOps and engineering teams can investigate anomalies and optimization opportunities.
Connect AI costs to financial governance
Visibility is only part of the challenge. Enterprises also need to connect AI costs to their overall financial processes, just like any other cost center.
Through integration with Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Cost Advisor for AI helps organizations map AI spending to cost centers, budgets, owners, and approval workflows. Finance and technology leaders can work from the same governed cost foundation when forecasting spending, establishing accountability, and prioritizing action.
Improve efficiency without slowing adoption
Finding an unexpected cost is only useful if teams can do something about it. Oracle Cost Advisor for AI flags overruns, anomalies, waste, and spending that has not been mapped to an owner. Teams can use those findings to investigate which applications, tasks, and teams are driving costs, then focus on the areas with the greatest opportunity to save.
For example, if customer service ticketing requests are running on a higher-cost model, Cost Advisor can recommend a lower-cost alternative for comparable tasks and estimate the potential dollar savings. The team can review the recommendation, test whether the alternative meets its quality and latency needs, and decide whether to use it for that workload. They can then monitor spending to see the effect of the change. That gives teams a way to reduce costs while keeping valuable AI work moving.
Why Oracle
Many existing tools focus on a single cloud provider or require customers to adopt and integrate a standalone FinOps platform. Oracle Cost Advisor for AI brings cross-provider AI cost visibility into Fusion Cloud EPM, where finance teams already plan, forecast, approve, and govern spending. During limited availability, the service will be available at no additional cost to existing EPM customers, giving them a way to understand their AI spending and identify opportunities to reduce it.
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