Why is your AI bill suddenly so much higher than expected?
The answer often isn’t AI pricing; it’s Token Sprawl.
As organizations rapidly adopt generative and agentic AI, token consumption is quietly growing behind the scenes. Engineering, security, and finance teams each see different symptoms, but they’re all experiencing the same underlying challenge: unmanaged AI usage that’s driving unexpected costs.
In this blog, EMA’s Christopher M. Steffen explores:
- Why Token Sprawl is becoming a major enterprise issue
- What’s causing AI costs to escalate
- How organizations can begin governing AI consumption before it becomes a budget surprise
If AI spending is becoming harder to predict, this is a conversation worth having.
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