The Agent Cost Stack Is Restructuring – and Your Billing Model Is Next
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The economics of agentic AI are diverging: the cost of a single token is collapsing while the cost of running an agent barely moves. Three moves this week are one restructuring seen from three angles. Anthropic launched Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output on Oct. 7, collapsing the small-model floor. Mistral’s ML4 at $0.68 per million input and $2.09 per million output landed a day earlier, undercutting the proprietary one.
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