Gartner predicts AI agent costs will increase 5x by 2028
CackleRooster · reddit · 2026-08-18
Gartner predicts that AI inference costs per agentic workflow will increase more than fivefold through 2028. Despite improvements in efficiency, the deployment of more powerful and expensive models, combined with sophisticated applications like agentic workflows, is driving up token consumption and overall costs.
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