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What your agent actually costs per task

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What your agent actually costs per task Most agent cost discussions stop at price per million tokens. That number is easy to compare across models and almost useless for budgeting real work. The metric that matters is cost per successfully completed task: total spend across all attempts, human revi…

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  1. 2026-10-09 16:40 · DEV Community — AI
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