Pigment finds 83% report AI budget overruns

Pigment’s Q3 CFO Index reports that 83% of respondents said consumption-based AI costs pushed spending above expectations, according to the company’s October 7 survey release. The survey collected responses from 2,000 CFOs and finance executives in the US, UK, France and Germany between August 19 and September 21; 40% identified unpredictable usage as a forecasting challenge. These are self-reported outcomes from a business-planning vendor’s survey, not audited spending across all enterprises. Finance teams should reconcile consumption allowances with actual dollar exposure, the model-aware budgeting problem our North 2 analysis examined.