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Token costs dropped 280x in two years. Enterprise AI bills went up 320%. If that sounds like a paradox, you haven't looked closely at how per-token billing interacts with the features that actually make AI products valuable.

The most useful AI workflows — deep research, multi-step reasoning, iterative refinement, agentic tool use — are precisely the ones that consume the most tokens. Under pure usage-based pricing, your best features are your worst margin killers. This isn't a temporary scaling problem. It's a structural misalignment between how AI creates value and how it gets billed.