Dynamic Billing Leaves 74% of Businesses Without AI Cost Control
An unpublished KPMG report reveals that only 26% of companies have full visibility over their AI spending, while 22% only learn about costs when invoices arrive. The culprit is tokenized billing and dynamic pricing—finance departments are unprepared for unpredictable AI workloads, with resource consumption spiking up to 6× on some projects and draining annual cloud/API budgets in months. The situation echoes the cloud spending frenzy during the pandemic, with businesses bracing for a wave of cost-cutting after quarterly bills from AI providers land.