New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- The rapid adoption of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a new and difficult-to-predict cost burden for companies, forcing chief financial officers (CFOs) to rethink how AI spending is budgeted and monitored, according to a report by Gorilla Logic, a tech company.

The report said AI token costs, which were largely treated as a minor technology expense until recently, are increasingly emerging as a significant corporate budget issue as companies expand the use of AI agents for coding, software development and other business functions.

Unlike traditional software, where costs generally increase with the number of employees or seats, agentic AI costs are linked to usage.

It stated, "AI token costs have...