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Verifying a contract costs $5,000. Verifying an agent's output costs $0.005

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A human-readable audit of a smart contract costs somewhere between $5,000 and $15,000, and a complex multi-chain protocol can run past $250,000. CertiK, the largest Web3 security auditor, does not publish a rate card at all — the price is a custom quote. Now price the other side of the same questio…

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  1. 2026-10-20 07:43 · DEV Community — AI
    Verifying a contract costs $5,000. Verifying an agent's output costs $0.005

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