Use Case

AI Agent Workflow Cost Guide

Agentic AI workflows accumulate context across reasoning steps, tool calls, and memory retrieval. What costs $0.01 as a single-turn query can cost $0.50 as a five-step agent task. CostMyAI tracks the economics of agent infrastructure.

Agent workflow cost multipliers

  • Multi-step reasoning: each LLM call includes the full context of prior steps
  • Tool use: function calling output appended to context on each round trip
  • Memory retrieval: external memory injected as input tokens on every step
  • Average 5-step agent task: 10,000-25,000 total tokens depending on complexity
  • o3, o4-mini, Claude Opus 4: highest reasoning scores for complex agent tasks
  • Cost per task: $0.15-5.00 depending on model and task complexity
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