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The hidden cost: tokens burned on pixels

Every pixel your agent "sees" has a price tag on it. Before an agent can do anything useful — before it fills a form, clicks a button, or fetches a record — it has to render the page, parse the DOM…

  • AI agents incur hidden cost of parsing tokens for UI elements.
  • Each interaction with a page incurs thousands of tokens.
  • Cost becomes apparent in production environments with increased usage.

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