Subagents: why more agents can cost less — Opus orchestrating Haiku workers
RelevantEmergency707 · reddit · 2026-10-12
A shared video, "Subagents: Why More Agents Can Cost Less," explains how multi-agent orchestration can reduce costs:
- Core idea (per the thumbnail): use expensive Opus for planning/orchestration and fan execution out to multiple cheap Haiku subagents
- Parallel subagents cut wall-clock time and reduce context bloat in the main agent, lowering total token spend
- Counters the intuition that "more agents = more cost": with the right architecture, more agents is a cost-saving move
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