Salesforce Agentforce pricing ties to agent activity costs

The author argues that enterprise business application vendors are increasingly consolidating control over pricing meters, API access gates, and execution referees for AI agents. As organizations move agents into production across core business processes, consumption-based pricing models and proprietary routing policies create deep operational dependencies. CIOs are advised to negotiate contract terms, verify business value rather than raw activity, and retain independent oversight before adoption turns into lock-in. Open article →