{"id":33894,"date":"2026-06-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/?p=33894"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:40:21","slug":"microsoft-has-not-banned-claude-it-has-looked-at-the-invoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/en\/microsoft-has-not-banned-claude-it-has-looked-at-the-invoice\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft has not banned Claude, it has looked at the invoice."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"33894\" class=\"elementor elementor-33894 elementor-33864\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1af33f3d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1af33f3d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60c76943 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"60c76943\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">You&#8217;ve been reading headlines for two weeks now that say, more or less, the same thing: <i>&#8220;Microsoft has banned Claude&#8221;<\/i>. This has spread like wildfire through LinkedIn, Twitter, and the Slack groups of half the tech industry. The problem with that headline is that it&#8217;s not true (at least, not in the morbid sense in which almost all of us are reading it). What Microsoft has done is far more interesting and revealing.   <\/p><p class=\"p1\">Stick around to the end of this article because I&#8217;ll uncover two or three signs that I think really matter if you work at a company that&#8217;s thinking about getting AI agents in seriously.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Let&#8217;s take it one step at a time.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74fa08e3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"74fa08e3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-327b82b1 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"327b82b1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What really happened?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-362026fe e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"362026fe\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cfbd251 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3cfbd251\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">Microsoft has canceled the internal licenses of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/microsoft\/microsoft-cancels-claude-code-licenses-shifting-developers-to-github-copilot-cli-a-move-likely-driven-by-financial-motives\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Claude Code<\/b><\/span><\/a>. As you well know, this is the tool that Anthropic offers developers for programming. The cancellation applies within the Experiences &#038; Devices division, which is the one that builds Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, and Surface (a good part of its backbone).  <\/p><p class=\"p1\">The announcement was made by Rajesh Jha, Microsoft&#8217;s Executive VP, in an internal memo leaked to <i>The Verge<\/i> in mid-May. Affected engineers have until June 30, 2026 to migrate to GitHub Copilot CLI, the equivalent tool Microsoft develops internally. <\/p><p class=\"p1\">One of the nuances that nobody tells is that <b>what is canceled is the interface, not the model<\/b>. Anthropic&#8217;s models (Claude Sonnet, Opus, and company) are still accessible within the GitHub Copilot CLI itself. So there is no commercial break with Anthropic, but a very concrete decision about which interface their engineers use to write AI-assisted code.  <\/p><p class=\"p1\">Far from being an open trade war between the majors, it is a strategic move.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The quote worth retaining from Rajesh Jha&#8217;s memo is this: <i>&#8220;Claude Code was an important part of that learning. Copilot CLI has given us something especially important: a product we can help shape directly with GitHub&#8221;<\/i> (quote). Translated and unfiltered: <i>&#8220;we have learned a lot with Claude Code; now we are left with a product that we can shape ourselves, inside GitHub&#8221;.<\/i> That, in company-speak, sounds like a strategic justification. In CFO-speak, it sounds like &#8220;we&#8217;re going to regain control over an expense line that had gotten out of hand.&#8221;  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62429bae e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"62429bae\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1cbc9092 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"1cbc9092\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/pF4Ovay98nA?si=z_II4VRHenvPP5-Y&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-725c016 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"725c016\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5dd6acd9 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5dd6acd9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The official reason and the real reason<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61aa8333 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"61aa8333\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-226130c7 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"226130c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">Microsoft has sold this decision as a <i>&#8220;<\/i>unification of tools&#8221;. The reason is real, but there is a detail that has more to do with the calendar and has to do with the deadline to migrate, which is <b>June 30<\/b> (it happens to be <b>the last day of Microsoft&#8217;s fiscal year FY26).<\/b> <br\/>With this move, an important &#8220;expense line&#8221; is charged just before the budgets for the following year are approved, and this is no coincidence. <\/p><p class=\"p1\">The sources that have covered the story in detail<i>(The Next Web<\/i>, <i>Fortune<\/i>, <i>Windows Central<\/i>) pretty much agree on the actual diagnosis. The main factors they point to are: <\/p><ul class=\"ul1\"><li class=\"li1\">On the one hand <b>the cost<\/b>, because Claude Code became too popular within Microsoft and the token bills started to hurt.<\/li><li class=\"li1\">On the other hand, <b>product pride<\/b>, because Microsoft engineers preferred the competitor&#8217;s tool to their own, which is difficult to digest in any internal committee.<\/li><li class=\"li1\">Finally, <b>strategic control<\/b>: Microsoft is building its own end-to-end agentic stack and relying on Anthropic for a piece as central as the coding agent does not fit that thesis.<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"p1\">I told you about the latter a few weeks ago, when we commented on the Humanist Superintelligence manifesto with which <a href=\"https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/en\/microsoft-comes-out-of-the-openai-closet-the-manifesto-that-wants-to-change-the-rules-of-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">the Humanist Superintelligence manifesto with which Microsoft started to come out of the OpenAI closet.<\/span><\/a>. This is part of the same strategy: control over the agentic stack, from the LLM to the developer&#8217;s interface. This move is very consistent with this  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a011566 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4a011566\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29421ea sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"29421ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The mirror that matters: the Uber case<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2214007b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2214007b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e5e304e sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e5e304e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">The really juicy part of this story is not in Redmond, but in San Francisco. About a month ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.briefs.co\/news\/uber-torches-entire-2026-ai-budget-on-claude-code-in-four-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Praveen Neppalli Naga, CTO of Uber.<\/span><\/a>told <i>The Information<\/i> something worth reading twice: Uber <b>had polished off its entire AI budget for 2026 in four months<\/b>, especially with Claude Code. <\/p><p class=\"p1\">The numbers, also from Naga itself, are ones that make any finance spreadsheet pale in comparison:<\/p><ul class=\"ul1\"><li class=\"li1\">Claude Code adoption within Uber went from 32% to 84% of its nearly 5,000 engineers in just a few months.<\/li><li class=\"li1\">The average cost in tokens <b>per engineer<\/b> ranged from <b>US$500 to US$2,000 per month<\/b>, depending on consumption.<\/li><li class=\"li1\">Today, 95% of Uber engineers use AI tools on a monthly basis; 70% of the code that is commented in production is AI-sourced; and approximately one in ten backend deployments is launched without a human in the loop.<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"p1\">And here&#8217;s a quote that, frankly, should be framed on the wall of any investment committee thinking about AI agents this year. Naga, speaking to <i>The Information<\/i>: <i>&#8220;I&#8217;m back to the drawing board, because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already&#8221;<\/i>. I&#8217;m back because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already&#8221;.  <\/p><p class=\"p1\">(If that doesn&#8217;t make your hair stand on end as CFO, I don&#8217;t know what will.) And for the record, we&#8217;re talking about Uber, which isn&#8217;t exactly a startup borrowing to get to the next round.) <\/p><p class=\"p1\">The token pricing model <b>behaves differently from per-user licensing, <\/b>something that companies have known for 20 years how to budget for.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">And here&#8217;s the difference: a traditional license is a fixed number multiplied by the number of users, while a token bill is a function of how much the model thinks, how much context it loads, how many parallel sessions it launches, and how many reasoning steps it executes. The financier comes to the close of the quarter and finds that the expense line has increased threefold over the forecast, not because someone has done anything unusual, but because the engineers have fallen in love with the product and are using it far more than any predictive model had predicted. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1739423c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1739423c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18958b07 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"18958b07\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Uber-quema-presupuesto-1024x605.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-33890\" alt=\"Uber burns IA budget\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Uber-quema-presupuesto-1024x605.png 1024w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Uber-quema-presupuesto-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Uber-quema-presupuesto-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Uber-quema-presupuesto-1536x907.png 1536w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Uber-quema-presupuesto-2048x1210.png 2048w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Uber-quema-presupuesto-370x219.png 370w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Uber-quema-presupuesto-840x496.png 840w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Uber-quema-presupuesto-410x242.png 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6aca9db8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6aca9db8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b594407 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4b594407\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Microsoft and Uber are not isolated cases<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34c8f155 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"34c8f155\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-787e6233 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"787e6233\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">If it were just Microsoft, it would be a curious internal decision; if it were just Uber, it would be a flashy headline, but the number of signals coming out at once starts to tell another story.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">In November of last year, <b>GitHub paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro and Pro+, its paid tier, because customers&#8217; agentic workloads were generating costs that exceeded their monthly fee. <\/b>That is: the customer was paying X per month and, with heavy agentic usage, was generating 2X, 3X or more in compute cost to GitHub.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">In April of this year, <b>Anthropic<\/b> had to change its terms of service in the middle of the night to ban an open-source framework called OpenClaw, after detecting that single instances were consuming between <b>$1,000 and $5,000 per day<\/b> in API costs, all running on $200 per month Max plans. You do the math on the cost per subscription, which is quite educational. <\/p><p class=\"p1\">A few weeks later, Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning at <b>Nvidia<\/b>, told <i>Axios<\/i> something even more devastating: for his team, the cost of compute today is clearly higher than the cost of the employees who use it. And note that this is coming from the VP of the company that makes the very silicon that is charging those costs &#8211; he doesn&#8217;t exactly have a bias to inflate the figure. <\/p><p class=\"p1\">In mid-May, <i>Fortune<\/i> published <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/22\/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">a piece<\/span><\/a> documenting that the heavy use of token-based AI tools may end up costing, per specific task, more than the human engineer it would augment. And Gartner, in a May note, projected that <b>25% of the AI budget planned for 2026 is going to be delayed to 2027<\/b> because proof-of-concepts are dying in the internal approval stream; in fact only <b>28% of AI infrastructure projects fully meet their business case.<\/b> <\/p><p class=\"p1\">To this I had added, in the article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/en\/the-internet-is-talking-to-your-ai-agent-behind-your-back-and-your-agent-is-listening-to-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">security risk of IA agents in production, another<\/span><\/a> independent signal: on the other side of the problem, in addition to cost, is safety. Put the two together, and you have a picture that explains why investment committees halfway around the world are tightening the brakes in recent months. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4df88d56 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4df88d56\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90fd3f4 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"90fd3f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEGURIDAD-AGENTES-IA-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-1024x570.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-33891\" alt=\"SAFETY AGENTS IA Blog Salvador Vilalta\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEGURIDAD-AGENTES-IA-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEGURIDAD-AGENTES-IA-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEGURIDAD-AGENTES-IA-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEGURIDAD-AGENTES-IA-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-1536x855.png 1536w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEGURIDAD-AGENTES-IA-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-2048x1139.png 2048w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEGURIDAD-AGENTES-IA-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-370x206.png 370w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEGURIDAD-AGENTES-IA-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-840x467.png 840w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEGURIDAD-AGENTES-IA-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-410x228.png 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4dded0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e4dded0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b0e8131 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5b0e8131\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Why this is technically happening (and why it won't be fixed anytime soon)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2e28a6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f2e28a6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27d2339 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27d2339\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">Here comes the part that is important to understand if you lead technology in any organization. The price per token for frontier models has fallen by approximately 10x every 18 months over the last 3 years. That&#8217;s a brutal drop. The logical question would be: if tokens are getting cheaper and cheaper, how is it possible for the bill to grow?   <\/p><p class=\"p1\">The answer is rather uncomfortable: <b>token consumption per task is rising faster than price per token, <\/b>as each generation of agentic model, by design, consumes much more computation per unit of work, because it reasons more, plans more, and checks against context.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Anthropic itself has publicly commented that its reasoning payloads generate about an order of magnitude more computation per query than classic chat payloads.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">In other words, we are buying a product whose unit price is falling but whose usage intensity is growing even faster. This implies that the monthly bill will continue to rise in the short term rather than fall. Any financial model that assumes that &#8220;prices will fall and therefore total cost will fall&#8221; is simply wrong.  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8ce863 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f8ce863\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3528a43 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3528a43\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What I believe<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12c4d63d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"12c4d63d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b39b5cd sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1b39b5cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">If you lead technology in a Spanish SME and you are thinking about AI agents, <b>the experimental phase is closing<\/b>. The phase in which the big platforms absorbed the cost of our learning, in which broad access was given &#8220;for everyone&#8221; without measuring consumption, and in which budgets were approved with napkin figures, is ending this summer. <\/p><p class=\"p1\">Next year we will have caps per user, access tiers per role, runtime quotas, automatic alerts when an agent has been consuming for 30 minutes. The purchasing model is going to be much more similar to how electricity is purchased or how AWS is purchased than how Office was purchased five years ago. <\/p><p class=\"p1\">Paradoxical as it may seem, this is <b>good news for you, decision makers<\/b>. For the first time, we are measuring the real cost of an AI agent against its real value, not against its demo. Until now, pilots were romanticized; demos went well; engineers told productivity stories x3; and CFOs signed the check without understanding exactly what the system was consuming. From now on, decisions will be made with real numbers, documented failure cases, and honest benchmarks, and that&#8217;s exactly what we needed to professionalize adoption.   <\/p><p class=\"p1\">If you already have an AI agent in production or are setting one up, my specific advice is to check, first of all, what your agent consumes <i>when you are not looking<\/i>. Explosive bills are due to the autonomous use of these agents. At this point it is vital to ask the vendor to give you, literally, a dashboard of consumption per user, per session and per task, and if they don&#8217;t give it to you, don&#8217;t mess with it.  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c61092 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0c61092\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11cdd0e sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"11cdd0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Factura-IA-encima-de-escritorio-el-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-1024x559.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-33892\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Factura-IA-encima-de-escritorio-el-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Factura-IA-encima-de-escritorio-el-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Factura-IA-encima-de-escritorio-el-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Factura-IA-encima-de-escritorio-el-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-1536x838.png 1536w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Factura-IA-encima-de-escritorio-el-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-2048x1117.png 2048w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Factura-IA-encima-de-escritorio-el-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-370x202.png 370w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Factura-IA-encima-de-escritorio-el-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-840x458.png 840w, https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Factura-IA-encima-de-escritorio-el-Blog-Salvador-Vilalta-410x224.png 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Generated with Gemini<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-873b07c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"873b07c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be276eb sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"be276eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">How are you guys seeing it from your companies? Have you already received your first token invoice, and have you been caught off guard, or are you still in the demo phase? <\/p><p class=\"p1\">Leave me your comments, I would love to read them.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Thanks for stopping by \ud83d\ude42<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Good week to all!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-925992d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"925992d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1241ca52 elementor-cta--skin-classic elementor-animated-content elementor-bg-transform elementor-bg-transform-zoom-in sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-global elementor-global-24757 elementor-widget-call-to-action\" data-id=\"1241ca52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"call-to-action.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__bg-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__bg elementor-bg\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/salvadorvilalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Salva_Suscribir-1024x484.png);\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Salvador Vilalta Blanco Suscribir\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__bg-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-cta__title elementor-cta__content-item elementor-content-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDid you like this content?\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__description elementor-cta__content-item elementor-content-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIf you liked this content and want access to exclusive content for subscribers, <b>subscribe now<\/b>. 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