How to Define Billing Granularity for Agents
MarkovStudio · reddit · 2026-07-19
While building a billing system for agentic pipelines, the author found that logging usage is easy, but the real challenge is deciding which unit to bill when sub-agents, retries, and shared caches are involved.
They observed that tagging by task or step quickly breaks down. A more robust approach is to bind the session to a billable unit from the very beginning. The post concludes by asking readers what granularity they actually use to report to clients or bosses, whether that granularity covers sub-agents and retries, and what metrics the other party really cares about.
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