Could AI agents be causing surprise bills at your business? You're not alone

• Splunk finds 60% of firms say AI bill spikes cause more strain financially than just paying a higher but flatter baseline
• Observability and security teams are coming together, which is a huge positive
• 91% of observability leaders say they can attribute costs to a model/agent level

Splunk's State of Observability 2026 report has claimed AI costs are actually becoming less predictable for businesses as vendors shift toward consumption-based models.

All of this comes against a backdrop of rising agentic AI adoption, where agents can work independently and consume huge variances in tokens depending on the task, complexity and model choice.

More than half (55%) of the organizations surveyed say they can't effectively control their AI costs, with as many (57%) now worried their telemetry costs are higher than the actual infrastructure they're monitoring.

Agentic AI is making AI cost prediction even harder

But while there are clear challenges surrounding cost...

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