Token Cost Statistics
Primary-sourced data on AI coding token costs, LLM pricing, and context-window benchmarks — raw numbers, cited sources, updated regularly.
AI Coding Cost Per Developer (2026 Data)
What AI coding actually costs per developer in 2026: ~$6/day average on Claude Code, $19–$39/seat for Copilot, $200–$500/dev/month all-in at scale — and why the heavy 10% blow the budget.
Paul IrollaRead article →Prompt Caching Savings: The Real Numbers
What prompt caching actually saves on coding agents: cache reads at 10% of input, the cache-write premium, real production reductions of 59–70%, and why a stable prefix is the whole game — all from primary sources.
Paul IrollaRead article →AI Coding Tool Pricing: Cursor vs Claude Code
Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Codex pricing in 2026 — sticker plans, the shift to usage-based token billing, and why the underlying API token rates now decide your bill more than the plan name.
Paul IrollaRead article →Agentic Coding Cost Benchmarks (2026)
What agentic coding tasks actually cost in 2026: real benchmark data from SWE-bench, documented cost incidents, and the context-accumulation mechanic that makes agents 50x pricier than chat — all sourced.
Paul IrollaRead article →Claude Code Token Usage Statistics (2026)
How many tokens Claude Code actually burns in 2026: per-session input/output volumes, the input-dominated cost split, cache economics, and inter-model spread — every figure sourced from primary documentation and published research.
Paul IrollaRead article →LLM API Token Pricing (2026)
Canonical 2026 reference for LLM API token prices: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT-5.x, and Google Gemini 3.x — input/output rates, output premiums, caching discounts, and batch savings, all sourced from official pricing pages.
Paul IrollaRead article →AI Coding Agent Token Costs
Current per-token prices for Claude, GPT-4.1, and Gemini 2.5 Flash, the output premium, prompt-caching discounts, and real-world session costs — all sourced from primary documentation and verified reporting.
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