AI Token Economics and the Enterprise Cost Gap: What Procurement Needs to Know Before the Next Invoice Arrives

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Enterprise AI spend jumped 108% year-over-year in 2026, and more than 85% of organizations are missing their AI cost forecasts. Join NPI for a discussion on what enterprise IT procurement leaders need to understand about AI token economics, where billing visibility is breaking down, and how leading organizations are building cost governance programs that hold.

What You'll Learn:

  • How token-based billing works across the largest enterprise AI vendors and where consumption outpaces what procurement committed to in the contract
  • The billing architecture gaps that produce five-figure surprise invoices, including cloud marketplace monitoring blind spots that most procurement and FinOps teams have not accounted for
  • How agentic AI workflows change the cost calculus, which usage controls are non-negotiable before any agentic deployment, and what contract terms should be negotiated to govern mid-term repricing as AI features roll out
  • The consumption modeling and governance approaches procurement leaders are deploying after signature to maintain visibility, enforce spending limits, and create measurable accountability for AI ROI
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Uncover negotiation leverage and unlock savings across your IT spend.