COMPEL Glossary / showback-model
Showback Model
A showback model shows business units their AI resource consumption costs without billing them, creating awareness before full chargeback implementation.
What this means in practice
It generates behavioral change through visibility while avoiding billing friction. For organizations beginning AI cost management, it provides data for cost allocation conversations. In COMPEL, the showback-to-chargeback progression is in Module 4.4, Article 4.