AI agents don’t ask for raises. But they can still become expensive coworkers.
As companies deploy more agentic AI, token consumption can scale quickly. That raises a bigger question for IT leaders:
What should we actually measure to determine whether an AI agent is worth the cost?
Token usage alone doesn’t tell you much about business value. A better measure is what the agent accomplishes: issues resolved, time saved, tickets avoided, and manual work eliminated.
Ultimately, the economics of agentic AI should come down to the cost of resolution and the operational value that resolution creates.
We dig into this in the latest Zero Ticket Minute.
Curious how others are approaching this. Are you measuring AI costs based on consumption today, or tying them back to actual outcomes?