cost

46 stories and discussions about cost, aggregated from every source we track.

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We’re sharing Unreal Agent — an agent harness that delivers up to 40% cost savings compared to Codex on production workloads and coding/science benchmarks, without any negative performance impact.

217 points•trollied•8 days ago•114 comments•
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I spent a week adding per-agent cost tracing to a multi-agent AWS Bedrock and Strands crew. It returned a perfect answer, showed 200 OK, and still billed ~1.4x. Here is how to catch that silent waste, read-only and at $0.

52 points•sarvar_04•8 days ago•31 comments
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You've been there. You run the eval, the number comes back, and something about it doesn't sit...

22 points•debashish_ghosal•7 days ago•5 comments
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A practical BigQuery cost optimization framework: query tuning, pricing models, commitments, and contracts, built from real customer environments.

7 points•Arimbr•6 days ago•0 comments•
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WavexAI gives you unlimited AI usage for one flat price. No caps, no surprises.

6 points•wilsprouse•8 days ago•11 comments•
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A few weeks back I watched an agentic pipeline burn a month of budget in three days. The instinct...

6 points•tokenlat•9 days ago•2 comments
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Epoch AI measures how fast the cost of a given level of AI performance is falling across five benchmarks covering math, science and games of skill: about 47% per quarter, or 13x per year, since 2023, faster than…

4 points•paulpauper•7 days ago•0 comments•
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4 points•erwindegroot•8 days ago•7 comments•
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Claude Code, Codex and Pi write down everything you do. bough draws it and prices it: a day, the work inside it, every prompt, and what each piece cost. One Go binary, runs on your machine, sends n...

3 points•nikhilkxmar•1 day ago•0 comments•
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3 points•mklein123•3 days ago•0 comments•
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Strands harness is a fully assembled, customizable, state-of-the-art agent you run locally or deploy anywhere.

3 points•fourfire•8 days ago•0 comments•
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna push the cost efficiency frontier by halving cost relative to GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna. Intelligence Index and Coding Agent Index scores remain level with GPT-5.6, with progress in some evaluations and…

3 points•wertyk•8 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•adchurch•about 11 hours ago•0 comments•
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2 points•KasianFranks•4 days ago•0 comments•
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How much does an AI agent cost? Get a build estimate within a $30–50K pilot plus AI agent cost per month by volume — honest agentic AI pricing.

2 points•myurushkin•4 days ago•0 comments•
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When you fully consider the consequences for your business, "free" comes at a cost.

2 points•tortilla•5 days ago•0 comments•
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Cost of Delay (CoD) is a popular factor for work prioritization, applied in queue-based or iterative work scheduling. It can be powerful for rough (order of magnitude) comparisons, but also mislead...

2 points•gojkoa•6 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•Cider9986•7 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•edward•8 days ago•1 comment•
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Scoring on your own input, believing an unarmed instrument, trusting HTTP 200, and waiting on a list that was still rendering.

2 points•whateverneveranywhere•9 days ago•0 comments
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Rising spending on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and higher government borrowing are pushing up the global cost of capital, as companies raise more debt and equity to fund investment while governments…

2 points•vismit2000•11 days ago•0 comments•
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<p>Includes a text version of the talk</p>

2 points•pushcx•almost 11 years ago•1 comment
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1 points•robtherobber•about 15 hours ago•0 comments•
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Generate → preview → deploy → per-run AI cost ledger, in one place. Guest mode included.

1 points•Aevion•3 days ago•0 comments•
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Agents often work on complex problems that require millions of tokens of context, which necessitates compacting across sessions due to limited context windows. We develop CliffCompaction, an autocompaction technique…

1 points•6bitquant•3 days ago•0 comments•
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Gemini 3.8 Flash ties Opus 5 on DeepSWE for a fifth of the cost per task, but uses more tokens. Flash Cyber is gated; Muse Spark is cheap if Meta trains on you.

1 points•axrisi•4 days ago•2 comments
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Epoch AI measures how fast the cost of a given level of AI performance is falling across five benchmarks covering math, science and games of skill: about 47% per quarter, or 13x per year, since 2023, faster than…

1 points•momentmaker•4 days ago•1 comment•
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1 points•bilsbie•5 days ago•0 comments•
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Contribute to sc2musa/Jev_Star development by creating an account on GitHub.

1 points•tndl•6 days ago•0 comments•
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We tested 29 AI coding models on 60 real tasks and priced every run. One model reaches 93% of the top score for 2% of the cost. See the full data.

1 points•kirti_soni171•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Agents often work on complex problems that require millions of tokens of context, which necessitates compacting across sessions due to limited context windows. We develop CliffCompaction, an autocompaction technique…

1 points•simonpure•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol cost about half as much per task.

1 points•aray07•8 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•ibobev•8 days ago•0 comments•
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna push the cost efficiency frontier by halving cost relative to GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna. Intelligence Index and Coding Agent Index scores remain level with GPT-5.6, with progress in some evaluations and…

1 points•theanonymousone•8 days ago•0 comments•
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Compare Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol pricing, cache costs, benchmark claims, agent efficiency, and subscription support in OpenClaw and Hermes.

1 points•alexmercerdev•8 days ago•0 comments•
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Strands harness is a fully assembled, customizable, state-of-the-art agent you run locally or deploy anywhere.

1 points•ot•9 days ago•0 comments•
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AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2…

1 points•mariuz•10 days ago•0 comments•
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Compare supplier price lists, spot cost changes, see margin impact, and calculate target selling prices to preserve margin — in your browser.

1 points•DavidFerreira•10 days ago•0 comments•
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Engineering teams embracing modern coding agents frequently hit the same inflection point: developer...

0 points•jennieji•6 days ago•1 comment
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A local-first CLI that scans an AWS account for unused resources, prices each one from the AWS Price List API, and generates or performs the cleanup. Read-only by default, with every price fetched from the live API and dated in each report.

0 points•xbill•9 days ago•0 comments

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