The Tokenomics Trap: Why Cheaper AI Is Making Enterprise AI More Expensive

Every few weeks another headline lands about token prices falling off a cliff. A new model matches last year&rsquo;s frontier performance at a tenth of the cost. Input tokens that cost dollars in 2021 now cost cents. On paper, AI keeps getting cheaper. So why do so many enterprise AI budgets keep blowing up mid-year? I&rsquo;ve been thinking about this a lot lately, prompted by a BBC piece on the…