After going agentic, our token bill would be $1-2k/day on Sonnet 5 — how is anyone paying this?
nunodonato · reddit · 2026-09-12
A developer shares that after their company moved from a static approach to an agentic one, token usage went absolutely insane. Fortunately they run their own models on rented GPUs with fixed costs.
Napkin math: at their current volume, switching to a barely acceptable commercial model (Sonnet 5) would cost roughly $1-2k per day, or $30-60k per month. They're asking how other teams running agents on provider APIs in production afford it.
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