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Your AI Agent Is Sending 10x More API Calls Than You Think — Here's Where the Cost Hides
DEV.to AI·May 1, 2026
The article reveals that AI agents, unlike simple chatbots, drastically multiply API calls per user request, leading to unexpectedly blown budgets. An experiment showed a research agent making 14 LLM calls per prompt, resulting in substantial daily costs for active users.
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