Cloud pricing idea: store agent traces free, charge outrageously to retrieve them

ChanceKelch · x · 2026-10-01

An X user floats a provocative cloud-platform pricing idea: if he ran a cloud provider, he would make agent trace logs and trajectories free to store, then charge outrageously for retrieval. The take highlights how value in the agent era may shift toward expensive lookups rather than cheap writes, sparking discussion about agent infrastructure pricing economics.

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