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The Receipt: I Priced Every Token of One AI Agent Task

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Everyone talks about AI costs in aggregate. Dashboards show monthly spend, per-model totals, team budgets. Nobody shows you a receipt. So here's one. A single AI agent task, priced line by line — every token, every tool call, every retry. This is a worked example from production-style workloads I d…

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  1. 2026-10-06 14:16 · DEV Community — AI
    The Receipt: I Priced Every Token of One AI Agent Task

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