Measuring agentic coding cost from transcripts: billable tokens are ~98% cache reads, and what that does to your bill
I pulled apart my own Claude Code transcripts to work out where the money actually goes, and the token split was not what I expected. billable_tokens = input + output + cache read + cache write. On agentic coding workloads this is dominated by cache reads — in my own warehouse 98% of cache tokens w…
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- 2026-09-22 17:49 · r/machinelearningnews
Measuring agentic coding cost from transcripts: billable tokens are ~98% cache reads, and what that does to your bill