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AI inference implementation guides

Practical guides to evaluating models, measuring inference costs, and rolling out routing.

Choose the guide that matches your current task. Establish a baseline and a clear acceptance criterion before changing production behavior.

Guides12 step-by-step
  • How to Reduce AI Inference Cost Reducing AI inference cost requires routing each use case to the cheapest model clearing evals, not negotiating one global model discount.…
  • AI Evals and Quality Floors A quality floor without evals is a hope. Evals replay traffic against candidates so routing targets measurable equivalence.…
  • Shadow Mode to Enforce Ramp The trust ramp for inference routing: shadow observes, prove quantifies, enforce changes production. Typically live in a day after proof.…
  • Four CFO Questions on AI Spend CFOs need four answers with levers: ledger, efficiency ratio, kill criteria, and bound forecast, not token totals in a dashboard.…
  • Routing Through Bedrock Committed Capacity Committed Bedrock capacity lowers marginal cost. Routing compliant inference through it realizes signed cloud spend.…
  • Multi-Provider Inference Setup Multi-provider inference unifies unified inference gateway, OpenRouter, Bedrock, and open-weight under one control plane.…
  • Inference Cost Per Request Per-request inference cost equals tokens times price per million divided by one million. Vary by model route.…
  • Run a KYI Assessment A KYI assessment produces a 0–100 composite score across performance, economics, integration, strategy, and risk.…
  • Weekly Token Spend Audit Paste a week of traffic into o10's audit to get the savings number that books the meeting. Estimates become verified in shadow.…
  • Data residency routing (roadmap) UK, KSA, and other region-specific residency controls are planned, not enforced in o10 today. Today enforce mode applies eval floors, budget envelopes, and an i…
  • Open-Weight Models in Production Open-weight 8B-class models clear many workloads at $0.05/1M tokens when eval floors permit lean routing.…
  • Inference Spend Forecasting Forecasts tied to business drivers (tickets, users, documents) beat token extrapolation for board planning.…
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If you are new to inference, start with the AI inference guide. For an existing application, begin with measurement: task quality, latency, failure rate, and fully loaded cost.

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