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The Hidden Cost Driver in Agentic Coding: It's Not the Per-Token Price

calendar_today April 14, 2026 person Casey Harding domain vantage

Per-token pricing gets all the visibility, but agentic sessions have a completely different cost structure. Input tokens, context accumulation, and session length are what actually drive the bill.

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