<1 min | Posted on 17/07/2026

India Inc. in flux: AI coding costs triple developer salaries

Without clear visibility into token usage across development tasks, organisations risk budget overruns and reduced ability to track cost-to-value outcomes

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AI-enthusiastic Indian corporates are now hard-pressed to put their money where their mouth is as recent tokenisation costs indicate that the average annual cost of AI coding is nearly triple the salary of the average software developer in India.

For some years now, Indian corporates, particularly IT services companies have been talking about the transformative potential of AI technology, particularly in driving up productivity manifold with the same or even a small workforce.

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