99.7%
Token price collapse
Unit token pricing dropped dramatically.
Slide 1 - Hook
Tokens got 99.7% cheaper.
So why did your AI bill triple?
Unit token costs are collapsing. Total AI delivery cost is not. This report breaks down where the real spend hides and what to fix first.
Slide 2 - The Numbers
3×
Average AI bill increase
Total monthly AI invoices still surged.
72%
Spend outside inference
Most cost sits beyond model token usage.
Slide 3 - The Insight
Core Reality
Inference invoice is only 20-40% of real AI cost.
The model bill is visible, so teams optimize it first. The bigger cost centers are often hidden in the systems around the model.
Where the other 60-80% hides
- Orchestration and agent workflow overhead
- Retries, fallbacks, and failure recovery loops
- Idle infra and overprovisioned concurrency
- Retrieval, chunking, and vector-store inefficiency
- Observability, guardrails, and tooling tax
- Human operations and incident-response burden
Slide 4 - CTA
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