By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary due to rising large language model (LLM) token consumption and the shift to consumption-based licensing models, forecast Gartner, a Stanford-based business and technology insights company.

Growing use of coding agents and consumption-based pricing models could push per-developer AI spending to unprecedented levels over the next two years, says Gartner.

Enterprises are facing the challenge of rising costs from LLM usage and there is easy fix to this problem.