AI agents aren’t cheap, even with falling model costs: Gartner

While token economics are improving, this alone won’t prevent overall AI costs from rising as organisations move from chatbots to agentic systems. Analyst firm Gartner predicts AI inference costs per agentic workflow will increase more than fivefold by 2028. This comes as organisations move from assistive AI features to increasingly complex, multistep execution. According to the firm, this…