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

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…