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agent_cost_optimization [2026/03/24 17:59] – Create page: Agent Cost Optimization - token economics for production agents agentagent_cost_optimization [2026/03/24 21:57] (current) – Add cost optimization pipeline diagram agent
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 Agent cost optimization is the discipline of managing token economics, inference costs, and compute budgets for production LLM agent systems. Agents make 3-10x more LLM calls than simple chatbots --- a single user request can trigger planning, tool selection, execution, verification, and response generation, easily consuming 5x the token budget of a direct chat completion. An unconstrained coding agent can cost $5-8 per task in API fees alone. Agent cost optimization is the discipline of managing token economics, inference costs, and compute budgets for production LLM agent systems. Agents make 3-10x more LLM calls than simple chatbots --- a single user request can trigger planning, tool selection, execution, verification, and response generation, easily consuming 5x the token budget of a direct chat completion. An unconstrained coding agent can cost $5-8 per task in API fees alone.
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 +<mermaid>
 +graph TD
 +    A[User Query] --> B{Model Router}
 +    B -->|Simple| C[Cheap Model]
 +    B -->|Complex| D[Frontier Model]
 +    C --> E{Cache Hit?}
 +    D --> E
 +    E -->|Yes| F[Return Cached Response]
 +    E -->|No| G[Prompt Compression]
 +    G --> H[Execute LLM Call]
 +    H --> I[Track Costs]
 +    I --> J[Response]
 +</mermaid>
  
 ===== The Real Cost Structure ===== ===== The Real Cost Structure =====
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