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Somebody somewhere expected production to spend $25K a month on Anthropic... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) By Craig Conboy • September 25, 2026 [Read article](https://frugal.co/blog/cutting-cloud-costs-when-nothing-is-broken) ![Cutting Cloud Costs When Nothing Is Broken](https://frugal.co/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Sep-24-2026-08-10-26-7068-PM.jpg) Featured article Filter posts All Product Engineering AI FinOps Featured Cost Engineering Cost KPIs GCP AWS Datadog Anthropic OpenAI Fun Company Press Release Featured Product ![Frugal Adds AWS Lambda](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Sep-01-2026-06-04-49-4356-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Sep-01-2026-06-04-49-4356-PM.jpg) Featured Product Frugal Adds AWS Lambda I love the convenience, simplicity and auto-scaling behavior of AWS Lambda. Its liberating to focus on what your function does and not at all on the... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy September 1, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/frugal-adds-lambda) Featured Product ![Frugal Adds Call Sites](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Aug-14-2026-06-16-04-5663-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Aug-14-2026-06-16-04-5663-PM.jpg) Featured Product Frugal Adds Call Sites Frugal recently added Call Sites and we are hearing from developers that its a view that is really helping them understand how their code is spending... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy August 14, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/frugal-adds-call-sites) Featured Engineering AI FinOps ![Why Curated Context Beats Raw Data for Coding Agents](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jun-07-2026-09-12-22-1887-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jun-07-2026-09-12-22-1887-PM.jpg) Featured Engineering AI FinOps Why Curated Context Beats Raw Data for Coding Agents Across four scenarios, Claude Code produced ~40% better results at ~33% lower cost with Frugal than with general-purpose MCP servers, roughly twice... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/why-curated-context-beats-raw-data-for-coding-agents) Featured Engineering FinOps ![Why Not Just Optimize Everything?](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-May-20-2026-01-27-40-9501-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-May-20-2026-01-27-40-9501-PM.jpg) Featured Engineering FinOps Why Not Just Optimize Everything? Maybe you've heard that "coding is solved". Its true, I can now generate, on a whim, whatever code my heart may desire. Does it change the game for... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy May 20, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/why-not-just-optimize-everything) Featured FinOps ![Why GenAI Breaks Classic SaaS Playbooks](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Feb-06-2026-03-46-57-9531-AM.png?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Feb-06-2026-03-46-57-9531-AM.png) Featured FinOps Why GenAI Breaks Classic SaaS Playbooks Everyone's debating whether AI will kill SaaS. They're asking the wrong question. There is a popular narrative out right now that generative AI will... ![Mike Weider](https://frugal.co/hubfs/687a9de2429ae6d0f60fa46d_headshot2024.jpg) Mike Weider February 5, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/why-genai-breaks-classic-saas-playbooks) Company Featured Press Release ![Frugal Raises US $5M Seed to Bring Cost Engineering to Cloud and AI Applications](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/Seed%20round%20blog%20cover%20image.png?width=500&height=281&name=Seed%20round%20blog%20cover%20image.png) Company Featured Press Release Frugal Raises US $5M Seed to Bring Cost Engineering to Cloud and AI Applications The world’s first Application Cost Engineering platform curbs inflating costs associated with AI and cloud services at the source code - without... ![Mike Weider](https://frugal.co/hubfs/687a9de2429ae6d0f60fa46d_headshot2024.jpg) Mike Weider November 12, 2025 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/frugal-raises-us-5m-seed-to-bring-cost-engineering-to-cloud-and-ai-applications) Company Cost Engineering Featured ![Introducing Frugal: The Frugal Origin Story](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/Turn%20inefficient%20code%20into%20cloud%20savings.png?width=500&height=281&name=Turn%20inefficient%20code%20into%20cloud%20savings.png) Company Cost Engineering Featured Introducing Frugal: The Frugal Origin Story Frugal Origin Story The Frugal story started a few months back when I was chatting with a startup founder who was venting about how much they were... ![Mike Weider](https://frugal.co/hubfs/687a9de2429ae6d0f60fa46d_headshot2024.jpg) Mike Weider October 21, 2025 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/introducing-frugal) Product ![Scaling Out FinOps with a Grok bot Agent](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Oct-15-2026-03-56-18-1007-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Oct-15-2026-03-56-18-1007-PM.jpg) Product Scaling Out FinOps with a Grok bot Agent At Frugal one of my jobs is to act as the FinOps engineer for our team, and today's post is about using Grok bot to help me with some of those... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy October 15, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/scaling-out-finops-with-a-grok-bot-agent) ![The Missing Context That Makes Coding Agents Much More Effective at Cutting Cloud Spend](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog%20Banner%202%20%286%29.png?width=500&height=281&name=Blog%20Banner%202%20%286%29.png) The Missing Context That Makes Coding Agents Much More Effective at Cutting Cloud Spend “Find ways to cut our cloud bill” sounds like a good job for a coding agent. The agent can read the repository, inspect a query, and write a fix. But... ![Mike Weider](https://frugal.co/hubfs/687a9de2429ae6d0f60fa46d_headshot2024.jpg) Mike Weider October 7, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-missing-context-that-makes-coding-agents-much-more-effective-at-cutting-cloud-spend) Product ![Frugal Adds Code Review for Cost](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-30-2026-05-59-27-9449-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-30-2026-05-59-27-9449-PM.jpg) Product Frugal Adds Code Review for Cost Frugal recently shipped awesome new capabilities that are helping Frugal users catch cost regressions before they ship, and I wanted to say a bit... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 30, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/frugal-adds-code-review-for-cost) Cost Engineering GCP ![The Frugal Approach to GCP Cloud Monitoring Metrics Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-37-9489-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-37-9489-PM.jpg) Cost Engineering GCP The Frugal Approach to GCP Cloud Monitoring Metrics Costs With usage-billed observability services like Cloud Monitoring, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications emit the... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-gcp-cloud-monitoring-metrics-costs) Cost Engineering AWS ![The Frugal Approach to AWS CloudWatch Metrics Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-36-4594-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-36-4594-PM.jpg) Cost Engineering AWS The Frugal Approach to AWS CloudWatch Metrics Costs With usage-billed observability services like CloudWatch, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications publish the... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-aws-cloudwatch-metrics-costs) Cost Engineering Datadog ![The Frugal Approach to Datadog Metrics Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-35-0302-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-35-0302-PM.jpg) Cost Engineering Datadog The Frugal Approach to Datadog Metrics Costs With usage-billed observability services like Datadog, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications emit the metrics;... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-datadog-metrics-costs) Cost Engineering GCP ![The Frugal Approach to GCP Firestore Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-33-4507-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-33-4507-PM.jpg) Cost Engineering GCP The Frugal Approach to GCP Firestore Costs With usage-billed database services like Firestore, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications read and write... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-gcp-firestore-costs) Cost Engineering GCP ![The Frugal Approach to GCP AlloyDB Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-31-5949-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-31-5949-PM.jpg) Cost Engineering GCP The Frugal Approach to GCP AlloyDB Costs With usage-billed database services like AlloyDB, cost optimization starts with your code. 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It's not just that applications read and write items;... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-aws-dynamodb-costs) Cost Engineering AWS ![The Frugal Approach to AWS RDS Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-26-4061-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-26-4061-PM.jpg) Cost Engineering AWS The Frugal Approach to AWS RDS Costs With usage-billed database services like AWS RDS, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications query the database;... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-aws-rds-costs) Cost Engineering GCP ![The Frugal Approach to Google Cloud Functions Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-24-7139-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-24-7139-PM.jpg) Cost Engineering GCP The Frugal Approach to Google Cloud Functions Costs With usage-billed compute services like Google Cloud Functions, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications run on the... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-google-cloud-functions-costs) Cost Engineering AWS ![The Frugal Approach to AWS Lambda Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-23-1457-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-48-23-1457-PM.jpg) Cost Engineering AWS The Frugal Approach to AWS Lambda Costs With usage-billed compute services like AWS Lambda, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications run on the functions;... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-aws-lambda-costs) Cost Engineering GCP ![The Frugal Approach to GCS Storage Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-47-8065-PM.png?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-47-8065-PM.png) Cost Engineering GCP The Frugal Approach to GCS Storage Costs With usage-billed storage services like Google Cloud Storage, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications store the... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-gcs-storage-costs) Cost Engineering AWS ![The Frugal Approach to AWS S3 Storage Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-46-0073-PM.png?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-46-0073-PM.png) Cost Engineering AWS The Frugal Approach to AWS S3 Storage Costs With usage-billed storage services like S3, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications store the data; applications... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-aws-s3-storage-costs) Cost Engineering GCP ![The Frugal Approach to GCP Cloud Logging Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-44-1587-PM.png?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-44-1587-PM.png) Cost Engineering GCP The Frugal Approach to GCP Cloud Logging Costs With usage-billed logging services like Google Cloud Logging, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications generate the... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-gcp-cloud-logging-costs) Cost Engineering AWS ![The Frugal Approach to AWS CloudWatch Logs Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-42-0368-PM.png?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-42-0368-PM.png) Cost Engineering AWS The Frugal Approach to AWS CloudWatch Logs Costs With usage-billed logging services like CloudWatch, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications generate the logs;... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-aws-cloudwatch-logs-costs) Cost Engineering Datadog ![The Frugal Approach to Datadog Log Management Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-40-1696-PM.png?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-40-1696-PM.png) Cost Engineering Datadog The Frugal Approach to Datadog Log Management Costs With usage-billed logging services like Datadog, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications generate the logs;... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-datadog-log-management-costs) Cost Engineering Anthropic ![The Frugal Approach to Anthropic Claude API Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-38-2455-PM.png?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-38-2455-PM.png) Cost Engineering Anthropic The Frugal Approach to Anthropic Claude API Costs With usage-billed AI services like Anthropic Claude, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications generate the API calls;... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-anthropic-claude-api-costs) Cost Engineering OpenAI ![The Frugal Approach to OpenAI API Costs](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-36-1248-PM.png?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jul-23-2026-12-44-36-1248-PM.png) Cost Engineering OpenAI The Frugal Approach to OpenAI API Costs With usage-billed AI services like OpenAI, cost optimization starts with your code. It's not just that applications generate the API calls;... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy July 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/the-frugal-approach-to-openai-api-costs) Anthropic AI FinOps ![Frugal Meets the Claude Advisor](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Apr-10-2026-03-08-41-0420-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Apr-10-2026-03-08-41-0420-PM.jpg) Anthropic AI FinOps Frugal Meets the Claude Advisor Anthropic's new advisor tool cuts the cost of agentic Claude workloads, and we are all about that, so Frugal now supports it out of the box. 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We wanted to do efficiency work on it, but over and over again we... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy March 23, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/when-inference-capacity-gets-tight-efficiency-becomes-advantage) Engineering ![What Is Application Cost Engineering?](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jan-26-2026-09-57-58-7920-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jan-26-2026-09-57-58-7920-PM.jpg) Engineering What Is Application Cost Engineering? Application Cost Engineering is the practice of designing, implementing, and operating software systems with cost as an explicit, measurable... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy January 27, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/what-is-application-cost-engineering) Engineering ![Scaffolding for AI, the Frugal Way](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jan-26-2026-10-18-58-2236-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jan-26-2026-10-18-58-2236-PM.jpg) Engineering Scaffolding for AI, the Frugal Way AI agents can analyze code, understand natural language queries, and generate recommendations. But making them reliable enough for production use... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy January 26, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/scaffolding-for-ai-the-frugal-way) FinOps ![Why Cloud Cost Optimization Isn't Enough](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Jan-19-2026-05-49-50-6473-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Jan-19-2026-05-49-50-6473-PM.jpg) FinOps Why Cloud Cost Optimization Isn't Enough If you're in FinOps, you've probably gotten pretty good at the core playbook to reduce cloud costs: negotiate committed use discounts, right-size... ![Mike Weider](https://frugal.co/hubfs/687a9de2429ae6d0f60fa46d_headshot2024.jpg) Mike Weider January 19, 2026 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/why-cloud-cost-optimization-isn-t-enough) Fun AI ![ChatGPT 5.2 vs. Gemini 3 Pro Preview vs. Opus 4.5 -- Mirror Simulator Bakeoff](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Dec-18-2025-09-33-30-1974-PM.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Dec-18-2025-09-33-30-1974-PM.jpg) Fun AI ChatGPT 5.2 vs. Gemini 3 Pro Preview vs. Opus 4.5 -- Mirror Simulator Bakeoff Don't tell my spouse but she is getting some upgrades to her makeup station for Christmas. She has a small area dedicated to makeup and hair. Its a... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy December 14, 2025 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/chatgpt-5-2-vs-gemini-3-pro-preview-vs-opus-4-5-mirror-simulator-bakeoff) Cost Engineering GCP AWS ![Top 10 Cloud Cost Traps We Saw in 2025](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured_centered.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=featured_centered.jpg) Cost Engineering GCP AWS Top 10 Cloud Cost Traps We Saw in 2025 2025 was the year teams stopped just rightsizing infrastructure and started digging into how their applications actually spend. We've seen a lot of... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy December 8, 2025 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/top-10-cloud-cost-traps-we-saw-in-2025) Product ![Preview of Frugal Code](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/featured-Nov-12-2025-01-02-48-1038-AM.png?width=500&height=281&name=featured-Nov-12-2025-01-02-48-1038-AM.png) Product Preview of Frugal Code Frugal Code is our new cost engineering platform that attributes managed service costs to your code, finds inefficient usage, provides Frugal Fixes... ![Craig Conboy](https://frugal.co/hubfs/Craig%20Conboy%20Headshot.png) Craig Conboy November 12, 2025 [Learn More](https://frugal.co/blog/preview-of-frugal-code) Cost KPIs ![Are Your Cloud Costs Healthy or Unhealthy?](https://frugal.co/hs-fs/hubfs/Are%20your%20cloud%20costs%20healthy%20or%20unhealthy.png?width=500&height=281&name=Are%20your%20cloud%20costs%20healthy%20or%20unhealthy.png) Cost KPIs Are Your Cloud Costs Healthy or Unhealthy? 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