The Developer's Guide to AI Tokenomics: Why Your Coding Agent Can Burn Through Credits in Minutes

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Here's the real math behind agent loops, hidden context, reasoning tokens and prompt caching. The final context is 42,000 tokens, but 164,000 input tokens were sent across six calls. They bill by volume and iteration: every input token, every generated token, every reasoning token, and every step of every loop.

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