Four Rival Agents, Four Money Models, and the Price Tag Nobody Has Printed
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The consumer agent race is defined by a conspicuous silence regarding price. While previous analysis has mapped the visible pricing models in the consumer AI agent race and examined cost-stack pressure on billing models , the missing price tags are not an oversight. They are the deliberate product of four distinct architectures, each designed to displace the payment problem. The only honest test of these systems is not their feature set, but what happens when a real transaction attempts to clear. Apple approaches this through hardware margin.
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