AI Agent Cost: Where the Money Goes in an Agent Run and 5 Ways to Cut It

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A 20-turn agent run that reads about 59,000 tokens of material gets billed for 656,000 input tokens. I'll use Claude Sonnet 5, the mid-tier workhorse: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. And the pricing page says tool use is billed on everything sent, including tool definitions, tool calls and tool results.

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