Put a number on it
What does one workflow cost if an agent runs it forever?
Enter your real volume on the left. Everything is an assumption you can change — dial it to your numbers and watch the meter. The point isn’t the default figures; it’s where the two cost curves cross.
Your workflow
Build this from tokens
A real agent is a loop — set calls/task to 3–6 for a tool-using workflow and watch it climb. Caching cuts input only; it never fixes latency or non-determinism.
Back this with a platform
AWS Lambda · $0.20/M requests + ~$1.67/M compute at 512MB / 200ms, x86 (June 2026).
Click through all three. The savings number barely moves — that’s the point. Per-request runtime is rounding error against the agent; the real cost of this path is the build + maintenance below.
Compiling this workflow pays for itself in 46 days, then keeps $1.02M over 3 years — money you're otherwise paying as inference tax on logic that never changes. It also erases about 317 days of cumulative wait time every year.
Assumptions are yours to change. Token and cloud figures are sourced as of June 2026 — verify before relying on them.