Agent Runs Cost $10+ Each and Devs Can't Tell Where the Money Goes
Informal-Cricket2470 · reddit · 2026-10-06
A developer reports agent runs costing $10+ each with no visibility into where the money goes: which workflow is the expensive one, how much retries are burning, and whether a slow loop is quietly running in the background.
They also want budget caps — alerts near the limit or automatic fallback to a cheaper model. The post asks whether people roll their own tracing or use tools that break down costs at this granularity, soliciting production practices.
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