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Your token bill is the cheap part: dimensioning the real cost of an agent

Originally published on Loop & Retry — field notes on building LLM agents that survive production. The token bill is the cost you can see, because the provider mails you an invoice for it every month.

  • Token cost is visible expense, but not the whole picture
  • True cost includes latency, orchestration, and infra costs
  • Token costs often only a small fraction of total expense

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