Rising Enterprise AI Costs Driven by Architecture, Not Token Prices

Despite falling token prices, enterprise AI bills continue to surge due to system architecture complexities. In production, a single request triggers hidden costs like RAG, retries, routing, and observability, making actual expenses far exceed basic API call fees.

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