AI agent costs
What AI agents really cost a business: model prices, usage bills, set-up work and the people needed to check the output. We report price changes as they happen and explain what they mean for your budget.
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- The Economics of AI · 35 min ago
How much does an AI agent cost to run?
Agents are priced by the token, the outcome, the conversation or the seat. Here is how each model works, what vendors charged at the time of writing, and the costs that sit outside the bill.
- The Economics of AI · 43 min ago
How to tell whether an AI agent is paying for itself
Vendors quote savings. Your accounts show costs. A simple method for measuring what an agent really returns, including the hidden hours that most calculations leave out.
- The AI Workforce · 13 h ago
Perplexity launches always‑on AI teammates for work
The new Teammates run 24/7, integrate with Perplexity Computer and cost $200 a month on the Max plan.
- Agent Security and Trust · 13 h ago
Claude adds personal finance tool that reads your bank data
Anthropic’s Claude can now connect to bank and credit‑card accounts via Plaid to answer spending questions, in a read‑only beta for US Pro, Max and Ultra users.
- The Agent Stack · 13 h ago
Box adds Nvidia Nemotron to speed up agent content retrieval
Box's new Content Retrieval feature uses Nvidia's Nemotron embeddings to make agent queries faster, more accurate and cheaper.
- The Economics of AI · 13 h ago
Apple trims daily AI spending limits for engineering teams
Apple has reduced the amount its engineers can spend on AI tools each day, with caps dropping from $300 to $200 and further cuts planned.
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