Agentic AI cost: why agents burn tokens and how to control it

An AI agent uses roughly 4x the tokens of a single chat, and a multi-agent system about 15x, because every loop, tool call, and growing context gets re-billed on each step. Here’s what that means for cost per task, the levers that keep it in check, and why teams that can’t prove agent ROI cut the initiative first. The post Agentic AI cost: why agents burn tokens and how to control it appeared first on CloudZero .