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Cost intelligence · preview

Turn faster kernels
into a smaller GPU bill.

A faster model is reclaimed capacity, and reclaimed capacity is money you stop spending. Cost intelligence connects every speedup Kernalin proves to the exact GPU spend it lets you cut — the number that ends up on your P&L, not just your dashboard.

Roadmap
Why it matters

Faster kernels. Reclaimed capacity. Lower bills.

When a kernel gets faster, the same request finishes on less silicon — so the same GPU serves more traffic, or a smaller fleet serves the same traffic. Kernalin already proves the speedup is real. Cost intelligence takes the next step and puts a dollar figure on it, rooted in the efficiency findings from profiling.

Every figure on this page is illustrative — an example of the model, not a customer claim.

cost intelligence · illustrative
Current GPU spend
$48,200
per month
Optimization
−$11,840
projected reduction
Projected savings
24.6%
of monthly GPU cost
Effective utilizationafter Kernalin
was 52% → 76%
GPU utilization → Workload efficiency → Inference cost → Cost per token → Potential savings

Illustrative UI. Figures are examples, not customer claims.

The flow

From silicon busy to dollars saved.

One chain turns a hardware measurement into a number finance recognizes. Each link is derived from the one before it — so a savings figure can always be traced back to the kernel that earned it.
01 measured

GPU utilization

How much of the silicon your workload actually keeps busy — GPU and memory utilization from the driver, plus SM occupancy and tensor-core duty cycle where hardware counters are allowed.

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02 derived

Workload efficiency

Useful FLOPs per watt-second, once stalls, uncoalesced traffic, and launch overhead are subtracted out.

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03 modeled

Inference cost

Efficiency mapped onto instance price — the real dollars behind a request path, not a rack-level average.

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04 modeled

Cost per token

Normalized to the unit you actually bill and reason about, so a kernel win becomes a line item you recognize.

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05 projected

Potential savings

Reclaimed capacity expressed as spend you no longer have to provision — the payoff of a verified speedup.

Invisible waste

The waste that never hits a dashboard.

Utilization graphs are reassuring and often wrong. A GPU can read 90% busy while doing a fraction of its real work — and the gap is exactly the spend cost intelligence is built to find.

Fragmented VRAM

Allocator churn leaves memory that is technically free but unusably scattered. Batch sizes shrink, a second GPU gets provisioned, and the invoice grows for capacity you already paid for.

Uncoalesced access

Threads in a warp touch memory in a pattern the hardware can’t merge. Effective bandwidth collapses to a fraction of spec while the meter reads “busy.”

Idle GPUs

Devices held by a job that spends most of its time waiting on host sync, small launches, or the network. High reservation, low real work.

Launch overhead

A pipeline of tiny kernels where per-launch cost rivals the compute. The dashboard shows utilization; the profiler shows the gaps between the bars.

Preview Cost monitoring, underutilization detection and cost-spike alerts are built and in preview while they are validated on more GPU fleets.
What you’ll see

Detection, heatmaps, and savings you can act on.

Underutilized-GPU detection

Rank devices by real work delivered against reserved capacity, and surface the ones quietly burning budget while a dashboard shows them “allocated.”

Utilization heatmaps

A time-by-device view of occupancy and bandwidth, so a recurring 2 a.m. trough or a chronically half-fed replica becomes obvious at a glance.

Savings insights

Every efficiency finding is tied to a projected dollar figure and the profiling evidence behind it — so a rewrite is justified before anyone spends time on it.

Early access is open

Prove the speedup. Then prove the savings.

Cost intelligence is in preview. Join early access to shape how verified performance maps to your GPU bill.