AI Cost Optimization for Copilot, ChatGPT & Claude | Copilot Experts
AI Cost Optimization · For IT & Ops Leaders

You're the one who has to explain the AI bill.

This is AI cost optimization, done for you: we review every Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor seat in your company, tell you exactly what to cut, and hand you a straight answer for the next time Finance asks.

We only get paid from what we save you. Nothing upfront, ever.

Sample statement · try clicking a line
Acme Coworking — AI Tools, June
Microsoft Copilot logo Microsoft Copilot — 42 seats11 haven't logged in for 30 days $588/mo cut 11 seats
ChatGPT logo ChatGPT Team — 18 seatsduplicates what Copilot already does $450/mo pick one
Claude logo Claude API — top-tier modelused for simple summaries $310/mo downgrade tier
Cursor logo Cursor Pro — 6 seats2 seats idle since April $120/mo cancel 2

tap a line to see it get cut

Monthly total $1,468/mo
First, a straight answer

What is AI cost optimization, exactly?

AI cost optimization is the process of finding and removing wasted spend across the AI tools a company already pays for — unused licenses, duplicate subscriptions doing the same job, and users sitting on a more expensive tier than their work needs. For most mid-size companies, that means auditing Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor seats against real usage data, then cancelling, downgrading or reallocating whatever isn't earning its cost. Some call this AI spend optimization — same idea, same audit.

Not this page

GPU cost optimization, LLM API token spend, and model-serving infrastructure costs — the world of CloudZero, PointFive and similar platforms, usually bought by engineering and FinOps teams running their own AI products.

This page

Per-seat AI subscription spend — Copilot, ChatGPT Team, Claude and Cursor licenses your teams already pay for every month, whether or not anyone's using them.

The AI Cost Optimization Health Check

Five questions. An honest score. No pitch.

Question 1 of 50%
1. Could you say, right now, exactly how many active AI licenses (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor) your company is paying for?
Yes, precisely
Roughly
Not really
2. Has anyone reviewed who's actually using those licenses in the last 90 days?
Yes
Partially
No
3. Do more than one team use different AI tools for largely the same kind of work?
Yes, likely
Possibly
No, we'd know
4. Is your AI spend growing faster than your headcount?
Yes
About the same
No, slower
5. If Finance asked why the AI bill went up this quarter, could you answer in one sentence?
Yes, easily
I'd need to check
No
Your AI Spend Visibility Score

No email needed to see your score. Takes about 2 minutes.

What the data actually shows

Why "we bought the licenses" isn't the same as "we're getting the value."

~35.8% average enterprise activation for Microsoft Copilot seats — meaning roughly two in three purchased licenses show little to no regular use. — Widely cited across enterprise Copilot adoption research
01

53% of SaaS licenses overall go unused or underused — AI tools are not an exception to this, they're often the newest and least-audited line on the bill.

Zylo, SaaS Management Report
02

Around 32% of GitHub Copilot seats sit idle, against an average annual GitHub Copilot spend near $240,000 per company.

Zylo, SaaS Management Report
03

The advertised $30/user/month Copilot price is rarely the real number. Once the required Microsoft 365 base licence, infrastructure and training overhead are included, the true all-in cost typically runs $66–$97 per user per month — so every unused seat costs more than it looks like on the invoice.

Industry Copilot TCO analysis, 2026
Sound familiar?

This is what we hear on every first call.

You get asked why the AI bill went up, and you don't have a real answer.

Three teams bought three tools that do the same job — you found out after the fact.

Half the Copilot licenses you approved have barely been opened.

You keep renewing because auditing it yourself would take a week you don't have.

How it works

The AI Cost Optimization Audit — four steps.

1

Baseline

We lock your last 3 months of AI spend as the number.

2

Map

Every seat, license, API key — who has it, who opens it.

3

Mark-up

A plain-English list: cancel this, merge that, downgrade this.

4

Measure

90 days later, we invoice 10% of the confirmed drop.

Estimate your leak

Do the maths yourself first.

20%
Your possible annual saving
$7,200
Your own estimate — we find the real number for free.
What you actually get

Not a login. A finished, plain-English report.

Microsoft Copilot logoMicrosoft 365 Copilot
ChatGPT logoChatGPT / OpenAI
Claude logoClaude
Cursor logoCursor
+ others on request

Read-only access only

We never touch settings or content — view-only, revocable anytime.

4–6 week turnaround

From access granted to a finished report in your inbox.

Plain-English findings

No dashboards to interpret — cancel this, merge that, downgrade this.

Every tool, one view

Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor spend reviewed together, not in separate tabs.

Success-fee only

10% of confirmed savings — the review itself costs nothing.

Nothing to install

No agent, no plugin, no new login for your team to manage.

AI Spend Findings — Sample Company
Illustrative example of a completed report
$12,500 / yr
Estimated confirmed savings
Unused Copilot seats$4,200
Duplicate ChatGPT + Copilot$3,600
Over-tiered model usage$2,800
Idle Cursor seats$1,900
Cancel 11 unused Copilot seats — saves $4,200/yr
Consolidate ChatGPT Team into Copilot — saves $3,600/yr
Downgrade Claude model tier for summaries — saves $2,800/yr

A sample layout only — your real report is built from your actual admin data.

A fair question

"Why not just use a SaaS management platform?"

Good question, and worth asking directly. Platforms like Torii, Zylo, Productiv and CoreView are real, Gartner-recognized tools that track Copilot and AI seat utilization — and for large IT teams with the bandwidth to run one, they're a legitimate option.

The difference is what happens after the dashboard loads. Those are self-serve subscriptions you pay whether or not they find anything, and someone on your team still has to configure them, interpret the output, and actually go cancel or downgrade the seats. We do that part for you, personally, and we don't get paid unless we find and confirm real savings.

  • No platform to buy, configure, or maintain
  • No dashboard your team has to learn and check
  • You pay only a share of what we actually save you

What we access. What we don't.

Read-only access to admin and billing consoles only — never your prompts, documents, or conversations.

Read-only, always

We view license and usage data. We can't change settings or see content.

Revoke anytime

You grant access through your own admin console, and remove it the same way.

Founder-reviewed

Every account is personally reviewed by our founder, not a call center.

"

I run a Microsoft Partner practice, and I kept seeing the same thing: three tools doing one job, and nobody had checked. I personally go through your admin console with you — the same way I'd want someone to go through mine.

Garry G.
Founder, Empathy Technologies & Copilot Experts
Where we are today

Onboarding our first audit cohort.

We're starting small so every company gets founder-level attention. Book now and your logo could be one of the first here.

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The deal

We only make money if you save money.

10%

of the savings we confirm — invoiced once, 90 days after implementation. Everything else is free.

Common questions

AI cost optimization, answered plainly.

Finding and removing wasted spend across the AI tools you already pay for — unused licenses, duplicate subscriptions, and users on a more expensive tier than they need. For most companies that means Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor seats.
No. GPU and token cost optimization is about infrastructure spend for companies building AI products — a different problem, usually solved by platforms like CloudZero or PointFive and bought by engineering teams. This is about the per-seat subscription spend your business already pays every month for Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor.
You pay nothing. The risk sits with us.
Read-only access to admin and billing consoles only — revoke anytime.
Companies spending $2,500+/month across AI tools, more than one team buying licenses on their own.
We go deepest there, but also review ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor spend.

Get your AI cost audit.

Tell us what you're running. We'll reply within one business day to scope it.

  • Free to ask, free to find out
  • 15-minute call to confirm scope and access
  • Pay only if we find and confirm savings
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