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Optimizeagent cost.
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Agent spend is a metered obligation with no meter.
See every token, by team and agent
Industry signal
5–30
×
the token burn of a chatbot for a single agentic task.
Gartner
Route to the best-value model
Industry signal
$
1.3
T
agentic AI spend forecast by 2029, over a quarter of all IT spend.
IDC
Cap and kill runaway agents
Industry signal
40
%+
of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027, cost a factor.
Gartner
What security and AI leaders tell us
“
Our CFO flagged about $40K in tokens in a single week.
Finance lead, financial-market-infrastructure firm
“
Data-cost visibility is a critical value metric for us.
Enterprise architect, national health payer
“
We need runtime evals to prove the non-deterministic output is worth it.
Head of AI, financial-technology firm
Why Alterion is ahead for agent cost
01
Cost on the governance pane
02
Routing that pays for itself
03
Provable, not estimated
What the industry is saying about agent cost
Every
3
months
the average F500 agent estate doubles.
Gartner
150
k+
agents per F500 enterprise by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025.
Gartner
40
%
of enterprise apps will embed AI agents by end 2026, up from under 5%.
Gartner
Sources: Gartner
Visibility
Token + agent, real time
Routing
Best-value, automatic
Controls
Caps + kill switch
Chargeback
By team, agent, use case
Code changes
None
Ready to put a meter on agent spend?
Products solving this problem
Draco
Common questions about agent cost
Real-time token and agent spend by team, agent and use case, on the same pane as governance.
Route each task to the best-value model automatically, and cap or kill runaway agents before spend runs away.
Yes. Spend is attributable by team, agent and use case, so cost becomes a governed, provable line rather than an estimate.
No agent code changes or SDKs.
Yes, entirely in your stack, with cost on the same pane as governance.
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