AI Agent Cost: Where the Money Goes in an Agent Run and 5 Ways to Cut It
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A 20-turn agent run that reads about 59,000 tokens of material gets billed for 656,000 input tokens. Nothing on that invoice is wrong. It's how a stateless model API works, and once you see the shape of it you'll never price an agent job off the rate card again. So let's build one run on paper, pri…
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- 2026-09-15 11:46 · DEV Community — AI
AI Agent Cost: Where the Money Goes in an Agent Run and 5 Ways to Cut It