Coding Agents: From Autocomplete to Autonomous PRs
Coding agents have crossed a line that most software categories never reach: they no longer just suggest the next line, they open the pull r
S. Bauer · Apr 8, 2026 · 13 min
#per-task agent pricing
6 articles tagged "per-task agent pricing".
The Economics of Long-Running Agents: When a Task Takes Hours, Not Seconds
Most agent pricing was designed for tasks that finish before your coffee gets cold. But the highest-value work, migrating a codebase, runni
S. Bauer · Mar 21, 2026 · 13 min
The GaaS Pricing Report: What 50 Agentic AI Vendors Actually Charge
We pulled apart the pricing of 50 agentic AI-as-a-service vendors across support, sales, coding, recruiting, finance, and horizontal automat
S. Bauer · Mar 3, 2026 · 11 min
The Gig Economy vs. the Agent Economy: What Changes When Your "Worker" Is Software
The gig economy unbundled jobs into tasks and matched them to humans through a marketplace. The agent economy is unbundling those same tasks
L. Karlsson · Feb 27, 2026 · 12 min
The True Cost of an Agent's "Thinking" Tokens (And Why Your Margin Model Is Probably Wrong)
Reasoning tokens, the hidden internal "thinking" a model does before it answers, can cost 5x to 20x more than the visible output on a sing
M. Hale · Feb 14, 2026 · 12 min
The Near-Zero Marginal Cost Workforce: What Agent Labor Actually Costs
When the marginal cost of an extra unit of cognitive work falls toward the price of a few API tokens, the basic supply curve of labor stops
M. Hale · Feb 4, 2026 · 13 min