AI Agents Now Burn Nearly 5x The Tokens Humans Do
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AI Agents Now Burn Nearly 5x The Tokens Humans Do
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AI agents now burn nearly 5x the tokens humans do, up 14x since February, as agentic workflows loop through many more steps per task.
- 01. An agent plans, calls a tool, reads the result, calls another tool, drafts, checks itself and revises, looping through many steps for one human prompt
- 02. The AI economy isn't really about chat anymore - it's increasingly agents talking to tools
Humans are now officially the minority user of AI - a new chart from a16z shows AI agents burning through nearly five times as many tokens as human users, based on data from OpenRouter. Agentic usage first overtook human usage back in February this year, and it's grown roughly fourteen times since then.
