Tokens & Tool Calls: What One Attempt Costs
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In this lesson
You price each step of one agent run from its input tokens, output tokens and tool calls, add them up to the cost of one attempt and see how much of the token bill the output tokens cause.
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Lessons in this course
- Compounding Reliability: Step Success Rates & End-to-End Success Locked
- Retries: Success After k Attempts, Expected Attempts & Extra Cost Locked
- Tokens & Tool Calls: What One Attempt Costs Locked
- Cost per Completed Task: Paying for Failed Runs & Comparing Three Designs Locked
- Human Hand-Offs: Confidence Thresholds, Review Minutes & Slip-Through Errors Locked
- Latency Budgets: Retry Delays, Runs Over the Limit & the 90th Percentile Locked
- The Evaluation Log: Reached, Passed & Step Success Rates from 30 Test Tasks Locked
- The Business Case: Human vs Agent Cost per Month, Payback & the Chart Locked