LLM10:2025 – Unbounded Consumption in LLM Applications: Business Risk, ROI, and Strategic Mitigation
At its core, Unbounded Consumption refers to an LLM application’s failure to impose constraints on inference usage—resulting in an open door for resource abuse. Unlike traditional software vulnerabilities that might involve code injection or data leakage, Unbounded Consumption exploits the operational behaviour of the model itself—by coercing it into performing an excessive number of inferences.
