The Number One Metric For Measuring ROI Post Tokenmaxxing: Cost Per Finished Task

Research from Gartner has found that AI inference costs per agentic workflow will increase more than fivefold through to 2028. (Credit: Getty Images)

Tokenmaxxing has dominated the conversation around enterprise tech spending this year, with industry leaders like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang saying in March that he'd be "deeply alarmed," if a $500,000 engineer didn't consume at least $250,000 in tokens.

An AI token is a basic unit of text that large language models (LLMs) process, and most AI companies charge their customers based on token usage.