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US firms routed up to 46% of their OpenRouter tokens to Chinese open models in 2026 because they cost 60-90% less. Here is how DeepSeek, Qwen and GLM compare with OpenAI and Google on price, quality and risk.
Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, per Gartner. These are the five lessons eCorpIT learned shipping enterprise AI agents that actually reach production, priced in 2026 dollars
LLM API prices run from $0.14 to $30 per million tokens in June 2026, and agentic workloads multiply the bill. Seven free, open-source tools that make engineering teams' LLM spend measurable and attributable.
With 98% of FinOps teams now managing AI spend, LLM cost control is a 2026 priority. Here are 6 free, mostly open-source tools, from LiteLLM and Langfuse to tokencost and OpenCost, to measure LLM spend.
Strategic optimisation can cut LLM costs by 60 to 80 percent. Seven AI cost tools, from observability with Langfuse to prompt compression with LLMLingua, that engineering teams use to cut token spend in 2026.
