• Tekedia Capital analysis flagged rising enterprise focus on AI token costs, with about 60% of companies adding guardrails to throttle spending.
• UBS channel checks cited a “modest emerging headwind” as CFOs and CTOs scrutinize AI budgets amid uneven ROI.
• OpenAI and Anthropic seen as most exposed near term; open-source and Chinese models such as DeepSeek may gain share on cost-sensitive workloads.
• Spending restraint framed as a shift from experimentation to engineering discipline, not a pullback from AI deployment.
• Token-efficiency gains in newer models could ease pressure, with Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 cited as examples.

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