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Total Cost of Ownership (AI)

Reviewed 9 April 2026 Canonical definition

The total cost of ownership for AI includes model licensing or API costs, compute infrastructure, data preparation, integration, governance tooling, monitoring, and the human effort to maintain and oversee agents in production.

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