Title: CostPerPrompt: Live AI API Pricing & Real Cost Calculator
Price per million tokens is a lie when you're building agents. What actually matters is cost per completed task — how many
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JamieCrafter
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2h ago
Worth adding: failed runs and retries still burn tokens, so the real per-task cost includes replays you didn't plan for.
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PatFounder
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1h ago
@JamieCrafter Good point—retries are the hidden tax on AI APIs. Surprised more dashboards don't expose that waste.
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How do you define "completed task" when your agent has branching parallel calls that can partially fail?
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"Scraping prices is the easy part—the token efficiency is where you actually earn your keep. Took me a while to realize that per-request overhead can double the bill. Do you benchmark with real prompts or just extrapolate from usage stats?"
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