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Napkin math on output tokens: Claude Sonnet 5.5: $2/1M in, $10/1M out. 1,000 agent tasks/day. 2,000-token answers: $20/day in output. 400-token answers: $4/day. Same model. 5x cheaper. Set max_tokens and ask for the diff, not the whole file.

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Before you blame the model for your API bill, check: 1. Context re-sent on every call 2. Retries re-sending all of it 3. Output at 5x the input rate (Sonnet 5.5) 4. Opus 5.5 on Haiku 5.5 jobs: 40x the rate 5. Tool schemas nobody calls Save this for the next invoice.

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Napkin math on agent retries: 30k-token context. Tool call fails. Agent retries 3 times. That's 120k input tokens for one task, not 30k. 1,000 tasks/day on Claude Sonnet 5.5 ($2/1M input): $60/day clean. $240/day with retries. Cap retries. Re-send less.