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Once tokens cost cents, your agent bill runs on minutes

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DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 resolves a SWE benchmark task for just under 20 cents in tokens. At that price, the bill that matters is wall-clock time: sandboxes, CI runners, concurrency slots and people waiting. cost per task ≈ token_cost + wall_clock_hours x hourly_rate_of_everything_waiting Three thi…

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  1. 2026-10-25 09:19 · DEV Community — AI
    Once tokens cost cents, your agent bill runs on minutes

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