Glossary · Cost engine

Marginal cost per run

The cost of one more execution of a workflow. On most browser infra it’s flat; here it falls as cache hits replace model calls.

What is marginal cost per run?

Marginal cost per run is what it costs to execute a workflow one additional time. On infrastructure that re-runs the LLM every execution, that cost is roughly constant no matter how often you run. When repeated and re-phrased runs increasingly resolve through a semantic cache to deterministic replay, the marginal cost trends toward browser time alone.

Why it matters

It is the number that decides whether automating at volume is sustainable. A flat marginal cost means your bill scales linearly with usage; a falling one means cost per 1,000 runs drops as you scale.

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Put your agent to work. Keep the decision.

Give your agent a real browser, authorize the accounts it may use, and keep control of every step. Repeated runs compile into skills that replay without a model.