@FinanceYF5: a16z shared an insight from Hebbia CEO George Sivulka: "On average, humans are cheaper than tokens. But at scale, high-quality tokens are cheaper." For the median enterprise, agent costs are about $80 per hour. This...
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Hebbia CEO George Sivulka points out that on average humans are cheaper than tokens, but at scale, high-quality tokens are cheaper. For the median enterprise, agent costs are around $80/hour, dropping to as low as $4/hour when well-managed, or spiking to $7,000/hour when poorly managed.
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a16z shared a perspective from Hebbia CEO George Sivulka:
“On average, humans are cheaper than tokens. But at scale, quality tokens are cheaper.”
For the median enterprise, the cost of an agent is roughly $80 per hour. That’s nearly on par with the cost of a software engineer. But at the extremes, agent costs can vary dramatically. If managed well, it could be as low as $4 per hour. If managed poorly, it could be as high as $7,000 per hour.
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