PointFive joined as a Premier member and Governing Board participant as the new Linux Foundation group expands work on standards for measuring AI token costs and value.
The Linux Foundation's new Tokenomics Foundation has been formally established with 30 founding member organizations, updating an earlier count of 29, and PointFive has joined as a Premier member with a seat on the Governing Board. The vendor-neutral initiative is designed to build open standards, benchmarks and best practices for measuring the economics of AI, including how enterprises track token-based consumption and connect spending to business outcomes. The foundation plans to work closely with the FinOps Foundation to extend the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification, or FOCUS, so it can account for token-based AI consumption. That is intended to give companies a shared framework for assessing AI costs and return on investment as agentic deployments move from pilot projects into production use. PointFive said it will contribute research on AI cost attribution below the billing layer and support the FOCUS expansion. The company cited PointFive Labs research showing that 50% to 80% of a typical enterprise AI bill can sit outside in-platform spend controls, with charges flowing directly to model providers. It also said one production workload was running 40% to 50% over budget because high-complexity tasks defaulted to a frontier model when a model 15 times cheaper produced the same result. The broader push comes as AI usage and spending accelerate. Global token use is projected to grow 24x between 2026 and 2030, according to Goldman Sachs research cited by the Linux Foundation, while Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will grow 47% this year. The first Tokenomicon + FinOps X joint event is scheduled for Sept. 22-23, 2026, in Amsterdam at Muziekgebouw.