AI model and agent costs
Token pricing
Token and inference pricing
- How to Price Agent Tokens Passed Through to Customers
- How to Build a Price Table a Router Can Hot-Reload
- How to Cache the Rules Block So It Is Not Re-Read
- How to Choose the Token Unit You Meter on an Invoice
- How to Price the Strong-Model Share of a Tiered Pipeline
- How to Split Cached and Fresh Tokens Before You Price a Request
Cost attribution
Attribution and per-customer metering
- How to Attribute Bank Reconciliation Model Costs
- How to Attribute Model Costs to the Right Customer
- How to Forecast Model Spend from Last Month's Usage
- How to Meter Agent Spend by Customer When One Call Serves Many
- How to Split Model Costs Across Customers in One API Call
- How to Split One Call's Spend Across Several Customers
Cost per task
Cost per task and per review
- How to Cost a Failed Validation in a Closed-Table Pipeline
- How to Estimate the Cost per Task of an Agent Before You Build It
- How to Measure the Cost of a False Empty in Retrieval
- How to Measure the Cost of Reviewing Model Output
- How to Measure the Cost per Task of a Person-Agent Pair
- How to Measure the Hidden Cost of Agent Supervision
- How to Measure the Human Review Cost per Triaged Ticket
- How to Measure the Review Time per Line of Model-Written Code
- All of Cost per task
Invoice reconciliation
Reconciling invoices and exports
- How to Compare Your Internal Spend Meter to the Invoice
- How to Detect a Silent Tokenizer Change in a Model You Call
- How to Reconcile Model Spend Against Your Invoice in Three Steps
- How to Reconcile Per-Customer Caps Against the Provider Invoice
- How to Score a Reconciliation Draft Against a Labeled Sample
- How to Set a Tolerance Band the Model Applies Before It Flags
Cost caps
Cost caps and runaway protection
- How to Cap an Agent's Spend Per Customer Before It Runs
- How to Estimate a Runaway Agent's Cost Before You Set a Cap
- How to Write a Stop Message an Agent Can Act On at the Cap
- How to Cap a Hiring Agent's Spend Before a Live Pipeline
- How to Make a Cap Fire on a Step Boundary Instead of Mid-Call
- How to Price a Partial Result an Agent Hands Back at the Cap
- How to Set a Reserve Fraction for the Strong Model's Daily Cap
- How to Set a Weekly Model Budget from Your Review Numbers
- All of Cost caps