Agentic AI system reportedly cost $1.2M a month before being cut to $100K

emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-07-28

A reposted discussion says a real agentic AI setup was costing about $1.2 million a month when every action was delegated to agents. After changing the system, the bill reportedly dropped to around $100,000 a month.

The quoted original adds that the fix involved open-source models, framing the story as a cautionary example of how agentic workflows can become prohibitively expensive unless the stack is carefully redesigned.

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