Artificial Lawyer: legal AI has a growing token-price problem

Artificial Lawyer reports that agentic workloads and frontier models are increasing token consumption, pressuring vendors and firms to rethink pricing, routing, and cost absorption. The article highlights tactics such as model routing, open models, escalation protocols, and legal-specific layers. Midmarket firms that buy AI on seat-based assumptions may face cost surprises as vendors shift toward usage, displacement, or task-based economics.