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

Research from Gartner indicates that open-source models are capable of executing 90 per cent of agentic workloads at roughly a twentieth of the cost of frontier proprietary systems. The advisory firm suggests that underlying models are becoming commoditised assets in enterprise deployments. Consequently, commercial value is increasingly migrating towards the operational harnesses and scaffolding that direct these models.