Cost per token is the wrong number for coding agents. Here's what we measured instead.
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We build AstraCode, an AI code editor whose agent has to prove its own work. Model calls are the largest line on our bill, so in September we stopped guessing and measured: eleven models, the same set of real coding tasks, each run more than once, scored on pass rate and on cost per finished task .…
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- 2026-10-03 14:38 · DEV Community — AI
Cost per token is the wrong number for coding agents. Here's what we measured instead.