AI-Adjusted Gross Margin: The Metric That Exposes Your AI Feature’s Real Cost
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A feature can look healthy in a product dashboard while quietly becoming more expensive every time a customer uses it. That is the trap with AI features. A team sees rising usage, a good demo, and a familiar subscription price. Meanwhile, inference, retries, vector retrieval, tool calls, and human…
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- 2026-09-11 03:26 · DEV Community — AI
AI-Adjusted Gross Margin: The Metric That Exposes Your AI Feature’s Real Cost