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We re-priced six weeks of our own AI coding-agent usage. The "obvious" saving was 5.5x too big.

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Over 46 days (35 of them active), one person's coding agent made 61,955 requests . There was no invoice for this exercise - a real client audit starts by reconciling to one - so we did what you do without one: we re-priced every request at the vendor's public, dated price sheet (retrieved 2026-10-1…

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  1. 2026-10-16 16:17 · DEV Community — AI
    We re-priced six weeks of our own AI coding-agent usage. The "obvious" saving was 5.5x too big.

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