Run AI SREs without burning token budgets | ODSP928
Running AI SRE agents on all enterprise alerts naively costs ~$730,000/year, driven mostly by input-token costs.
“these are all driven by the cost on input tokens”
Robusta's CEO breaks down why AI SRE agents are economically challenging at scale: a Fortune 500 with ~1,000 alerts/day at ~$2 per investigation reaches roughly $730,000/year, often exceeding the cost of human triage. The core driver is input-token cost from agents pulling large volumes of logs, metrics, and observability data, making cost reduction the key to viable production deployment.