Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028

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Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns

The cost of agentic AI workflows is forecast to increase more than fivefold by the end of 2028 as users adopt more complex applications of the technology.

As Nvidia and other tech giants push inference and agentic AI as the next stage of the AI wave, Gartner warns that the cost of implementing these systems will rise even as foundation models become cheaper.

The analyst firm has cast its eye over the nascent world of AI agents – systems designed to act independently in pursuit of a goal – and sees multiple challenges ahead.

Leaving aside the substantial security concerns, these software agents are considerably more complex than chatbots.

Gartner believes falling model prices are tempting users to build more complex workflows, whose greater token consumption can outweigh those savings and...

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