Harvey Token Bills and the AI Cost Curve
Harvey's token consumption grew 14x in six months; a single complex contract review can now cost $20,000 in compute. J.P. Morgan Private Bank reports LLM token prices rose over 60% since December 2025 as demand spikes for data center computing power, with pricing models shifting from per-seat to usage-based "utility bill" structures — a software engineer with a Claude enterprise subscription could
BY FRONTIER DESK · JULY 23, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
Harvey's token consumption grew 14x in six months; a single complex contract review can now cost $20,000 in compute. J.P. Morgan Private Bank reports LLM token prices rose over 60% since December 2025 as demand spikes for data center computing power, with pricing models shifting from per-seat to usage-based "utility bill" structures — a software engineer with a Claude enterprise subscription could generate $730/month in token costs. Against this backdrop: Axiom reviewed 16,000 contracts in five weeks and documented $477,000 saved against traditional staffing; Superlegal launched the first licensed AI law firm for US construction at $117 per attorney-certified contract. The spread between AI compute cost and AI-enabled savings is the new unit economics frontier, and most firms have no measurement infrastructure to track it.