AI Tokenomics: Why It Doesn’t Work for Security, and What Does

The piece argues that per-token billing for AI security platforms leads SOC analysts to withhold or defer investigations during high-threat periods, because usage spikes translate directly into unpredictable costs; it critiques single-model and opaque multi-model vendor architectures for amplifying this problem and recommends an infrastructure-layer model broker (routing tasks to the optimal model) and flat pricing to preserve operational effectiveness and predictable costs.