Evals eat 60% of per-task cost; Astra's 8x cache-read price scares users
jxnlco · x · 2026-09-05
Replying to Teknium, jxnlco notes that 60% of per-task costs go to evals, and says Astra's cache-read pricing being 8x that of Fable 5.1 makes him hesitant to try it — even if Astra might be 8x more token-efficient.
Related event: Developers Question Astra's Costly Cache Reads(2 posts)→
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