# Model Cost Allocation

> Capability namespace of the AI Inference Economics Foundation. The attribution and allocation of AI-related operating cost to the models, teams, products, or customers that drove it. A conceptual reference ("the map"), not an API, agent, cost-allocation engine, software platform, billing system, standard, or accounting authority.

Version: 1.1 — Last updated: 2026-07-15 — Status: live

## This namespace

- Model Cost Allocation: https://modelcostallocation.com/
- Concept: https://modelcostallocation.com/#model-cost-allocation
- Question owned: Who or what drove the cost?
- Covers: attribution and allocation of AI-related operating cost across models, teams, products, and customers (treated as concepts).
- Role: peer-capability (structurally equal peer, not the package anchor).

## Canonical package

- AI Inference Economics Foundation (canonical package namespace) — https://aieconomicsfoundation.com/
- Buyer walkthrough — https://aieconomicsfoundation.com/storyboard.html
- Capability architecture — https://aieconomicsfoundation.com/#architecture

## Peer capability namespaces (structurally equal peers)

- AI Usage Metering (Capability Namespace — reference page may be published or updated independently) — https://aiusagemetering.com/ : measurement and normalization of AI usage evidence.
- Usage-Based AI Pricing (Capability Namespace — reference page may be published or updated independently) — https://usagebasedaipricing.com/ : translation of measurable AI usage into pricing structures.
- Inference Revenue (Capability Namespace — reference page may be published or updated independently) — https://inferencerevenue.com/ : monetization, revenue operations, cost-to-serve analysis, and margin evaluation.

These capability namespace links identify LJP-controlled namespace positions within the AI Inference Economics Foundation; their reference pages may be published or updated independently as the capability set is completed. This does not assert that the peer reference pages are already live, nor that any capability namespace is an API, agent, service, platform, or standard.

## Boundary

- Model Cost Allocation is a conceptual reference, not a cost-allocation engine, showback or chargeback system, API, agent, billing engine, software platform, standard, or accounting authority. Implementation and financial policy remain the buyer's.

## Machine-readable

- Ontology: https://modelcostallocation.com/ontology.jsonld
- Namespace manifest: https://modelcostallocation.com/namespace.json
- Sitemap: https://modelcostallocation.com/sitemap.xml

## Publisher

- Publisher: LJP Asset Group LLC — https://ljpassetgroup.com/
- Evaluation: support@ljpassetgroup.com