Cost per task, not token price, is the real AI metric

Sophia Yang and Xeophon argue that cost per task—ranging from $0.085 for financial tasks to over $5,000 for FrontierSWE—is a far better metric than token pricing, since output tokens are under 5% of usage and over 90% is cached input.

2026-09-23 ~ 2026-09-23 · 2 related posts

• Cost per task spans $0.085 to $5,000+: why token pricing misleads on AI agents — sophiamyang · 2026-09-23
• $/task beats token price: outputs are <5% of tokens in agentic coding — xeophon · 2026-09-23