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The shift toward agentic AI exposes a critical financial vulnerability for enterprises: per-token pricing models become unsustainable as autonomous agents multiply their own token consumption through planning and tool use. This structural mismatch threatens to cause production costs to outpace the value generated, forcing organizations to move beyond simple inference calls toward new capacity planning strategies.

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Agentic AI is breaking the token meter, and enterprises need a plan for what comes next

SiliconANGLESeptember 28, 20267 min read

Per-token pricing was the best thing to happen to enterprises looking to experiment with artificial intelligence, but it may be the worst thing for AI in production. That’s the quandary at the center of a new Futurum report, “The Off Ramp From Per-Token Pricing,” sponsored by neocloud provider QumulusAI Inc. The report’s key finding is that agentic AI can drive token consumption per task 10 to 100 times higher than a simple inference call. Agentic AI being more expensive is likely no surprise, but it’s good to see the report quantify it. This is a real problem I have heard from chief information officers and chief financial officers over and over with increasing frequency. The most successful AI projects end up costing the most, often with budget estimates way off. I spoke with one organization that budgeted $1 million for…

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