Only 26 percent of companies have full visibility into their AI costs, KPMG survey finds

According to a KPMG survey, 26 percent of companies have full visibility into AI spending. Half have limited oversight, and 22 percent have no transparency at all or only discover what they've used after the bill arrives.

The shift to token-based billing for AI services is creating financial challenges. KPMG is working with companies that burned through annual token and cloud budgets within just a few months; one client saw a sixfold spike in token usage.

Analysts expect the problem to spread this year. Gil Luria, head of technology research at D.A. Davidson, told the Wall Street Journal: 'A lot of CFOs are going to see their Anthropic bill and freak out this quarter.'