Local search agents trade latency for savings: ColGrep Balanced cuts cost 30% at 17.7s per question
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-12
Delegating search to a local agent adds latency: 21.6s per question vs 13.0s with plain grep. The default Balanced mode averages 17.7s while cutting API tokens by 21% and costs by 30% — a deliberate trade of wall-clock time for money.
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