Humans suddenly look better than AI when it comes to company costs — at least for now. Here’s the surprising change

The bills are coming in on AI tools, and suddenly human payrolls don’t look so bad.

Companies including Anthropic and OpenAI lured firms in with flat-rate fees and monthly subscriptions, but now they’re pivoting to pay-as-you-go plans, with usage calculated in units called tokens.

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Those tokens don’t add up to token amounts. We’re talking figures that rival salaries in the thousands, hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. And that money is being spent to design codes and applications to replace human work.

Arvind Jain is the CEO of Glean, a firm that provides businesses with AI and cloud computing support. He told CNBC (1) this situation is not only unexpected, but unprecedented.

“This is the first time ever that I can remember that technology costs the same as people,” he said.