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When doing cost retrospection, an 'available-at-the-time' timestamp check should be added, computing migration savings only for requests for which the new model was already available at the time, otherwise false savings figures will result.

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50%

Confidence

Long-term

Relevance

10/16/2026

First Seen

Sources

Six-Week Cost Audit of an AI Coding Agent: Cache Reads Account for 66%, and Savings from Migrating to Newer Models Were Overestimated by 5.5x

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