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Token Price Is the Wrong Number: What a Merged Feature Actually Costs Across a Dozen Coding Agents
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I gave one real feature to a dozen models across three coding CLIs and held every one of them to my own production review gate. The same feature cost anywhere from about $3 to about $33 to merge, and the token price was the least of it.
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