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Soaring AI Costs Push Enterprise Buyers to Chinese Models<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/soaring-ai-costs-push-enterprise-buyers-to-cheaper-chinese-models\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-19 14:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Large artificial intelligence (AI) labs like Anthropic\u00a0and\u00a0OpenAI\u00a0could see their growth impacted by AI users\u2019 efforts to control costs, the Financial Times\u00a0reported Thursday (June 18).<\/p>\n

Companies are looking to better manage their use of AI after seeing the costs of the technology rise, according to the report.<\/p>\n

The rising costs have been driven by the shift from chatbots to agents, which consume more computing power, as well as the AI labs\u2019 move from flat subscriptions to token-based billing, per the report.<\/p>\n

This has created an opening for Chinese AI labs that are able to charge less than the U.S. companies due to their more efficient models and China\u2019s lower energy costs, the report said.<\/p>\n

Chinese AI models now have greater token consumption than U.S. ones, which marks a change since the beginning of the year, the report said, citing data from\u00a0OpenRouter.<\/p>\n

Companies that encouraged their employees to use AI tools when the costs were lower are now using a variety of methods to cut back, according to the report.<\/p>\n

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Executives quoted in the article said their companies have introduced usage caps, tasked employees to use the right tool for each task, shared cost-saving ideas such as switching to models that are older and cheaper, and adopted open-source models.<\/p>\n

PYMNTS reported in February that as enterprises accelerated\u00a0their\u00a0AI usage\u00a0from pilot programs to production-scale deployments, they found that the commercial infrastructure underpinning traditional software-as-a-service (SaaS)\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0translate cleanly to AI.<\/p>\n

Rather than charging per employee, AI charges per token, per application programming interface (API) call, per generated image, per inference cycle, per autonomous workflow executed in the background while no human is watching, or, in some cases, all of them simultaneously.<\/p>\n

It was reported in May that\u00a0Uber\u00a0exhausted its full-year 2026\u00a0AI budget\u00a0by April, leading executives to say that the company…<\/p>\n

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