SaaS & The Cloud
How Tiered Agents and Hybrid Local/Cloud Routing Control Agentic AI Costs in SaaS
Agentic AI introduces variable, consumption-driven costs in SaaS, unlike traditional per-user models. Product managers can control these expenses by adopting architectural patterns like tiered agent hierarchies to reduce redundant context processing and hybrid local/cloud routing to optimize inference costs.
Jordan Adebayo·October 22, 2026