Summary
The Register reported Gartner’s forecast that agentic AI workflow costs will increase by more than five times by the end of 2028. The explanation is that complex workflows consume more tokens and orchestration effort, so falling per-token prices may not offset total workload growth.
Why it matters
Teams designing coding-agent platforms need routing, caching, budgets and observability because task complexity can dominate headline model-price declines.
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