Rohan Paul predicts agent swarms will outgrow frontier-model revenue and force metered pricing

Rohan Paul, writing on X on October 11, 2026, argues that agent swarms will send most new token volume to cheaper models, so agent token counts will grow past frontier-model revenue.

He says this will push AI software away from flat-rate and per-seat pricing toward metering, because round-the-clock agents remove the limit that human prompting speed once imposed. This is a forecast from a single post, and no supporting data is cited in the report.