Gartner Predicts AI Coding Costs Will Surpass Average Developer’s Salary by 2028 as Token Consumption Surges
STAMFORD, Conn., June 24, 2026 — By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary due to rising large language model (LLM) token consumption and the shift to consumption-based licensing models, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. AI tokens are the units of data processed by generative AI models. Token consumption…
