Agents burn 5x the tokens humans do, up 14x since February: a16z
arieljalali · x · 2026-08-23
a16z's chart of the week shows humans are now the minority user of AI — agents burn nearly 5x the tokens people do, a figure up 14x since February.
A commenter calls for an "agentic DAU/MAU" metric per unique agent: how many agents keep coming back and spending tokens versus one-off hacks and experiments, highlighting how opaque real agent retention remains.
Related event: a16z: Agents Now Burn 5x More Tokens Than Humans(7 posts)→
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