Open models can do 90 percent of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner

According to a Gartner document, open-weight models can execute nine out of ten routine enterprise agent workflow steps at a fraction of the cost of closed or frontier models. Analysts Mark Petty and Raymond Paquet argue that open models preserve data control and offer significant cost savings, while frontier models remain necessary for complex reasoning and research tasks. Open article →