The Linux Foundation has been steadily growing its roster of projects and initiatives, with AI governance becoming an increasingly prominent part of that push.
Their latest push in this direction is a plan to launch the Tokenomics Foundation, a new program focused on open standards, benchmarks, and best practices for the economics of AI token consumption.
It will work in close partnership with the FinOps Foundation, which has been busy with efforts surrounding cloud cost management since 2020.
Why now?
The foundation says that token costs have been moving around. They dropped heavily through 2023 and 2025, then settled down, and new model pricing is climbing again.
Citing a research paper, they pointed out that global token usage is projected to grow 24x between 2026 and 2030, hitting 120 quadrillion tokens per month.
Separately, they also noted industry analyst projections of AI infrastructure investment crossing $1 trillion by 2027, with the inference market going from roughly $106 billion in 2025 to $255 billion by 2030.
None of this spending is easy to measure consistently today. Cached vs. non-cached tokens, input vs. output pricing, on-demand vs. reserved compute. Every provider defines and bills for these differently, with no neutral framework to compare them across vendors.
Having a standardized approach to all of this is precisely the gap the Tokenomics Foundation is looking to fill with its open standards and benchmarks.
What will it do?
The foundation will operate through a Governing Board that sets direction and allocates funding, alongside a Technical Committee responsible for the actual specifications and benchmarks.
The first confirmed deliverable is expanding the FOCUS specification, an open billing format that came out of FinOps, to cover token-based spending models. That would give enterprises a common schema for AI cost data regardless of which provider they are using.
Twelve organizations have thrown their support behind it so far, including Google Cloud, Flexera, KPMG, Accenture, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Booking.com, IBM, and JPMorgan Chase.
The formal launch is at FinOps X in San Diego, from June 8 to 10, where the technical roadmap, initial working groups, partnerships, and upcoming conferences will be announced.
You might remember that the Linux Foundation took a similar approach with the Agentic AI Foundation late last year, pulling MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md under open governance before the agentic AI space had a chance to fragment further.
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