Solving Navier-Stokes cost 130B output tokens — up to $18M depending on model pricing
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-09-09
mitsuhiko highlights a striking stat: agents attempting to solve the Navier–Stokes problem sent 2.7 million messages and consumed roughly 130 billion output tokens.
At Astra pricing with a 95% cache hit rate that would cost about $18M; at Sol prices $7.2M; at Terra prices $3.9M. The near-5x spread across models underscores how sensitive large-scale agent workloads are to inference pricing.
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