What It Costs to Run AI Agents in Production: A Worked Cost Model for Tokens, Sandboxes, Storage, and Networking
In production, an AI agent’s cost is model tokens plus the infrastructure around them (orchestration services, code-execution sandboxes, networking, storage, and observability), and at moderate scale tokens usually dominate, so prompt caching, model choice, and call count matter more than compute.…
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- 2026-11-10 00:51 · DEV Community — AI
What It Costs to Run AI Agents in Production: A Worked Cost Model for Tokens, Sandboxes, Storage, and Networking