steipete pushes back on agent cost concerns: capable models now $0.1 per million tokens
steipete · x · 2026-09-26
Responding to adamdorr's claim that cost is still the biggest limitation for building with agents (thousands of dollars in tokens for uncertain results), steipete disagrees: there's a wide variety of capable models now. When OpenClaw got popular the best model was Luna — which now costs just $0.1 per million tokens.
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