The Cost to Run an AI Agent: Price the Whole Loop, Not the Tokens

<p>The cost to run an AI agent is rarely dominated by the model. In the agents we scope and build, the large lines are the tool calls wrapped around the model (search, scraping, data enrichment, email verification), the retries that re-bill those tools, and the hosting and tracing you need before you trust the thing to run unattended. If you want a number you can defend to a board, price the whole

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