<p>An AI agent that reads the web pays 2 kinds of cost. The first is the retrieval charge: what a search or fetch API bills per request. The second is model processing: content passed from retrieved pages into an AI model consumes tokens, while reasoning and generated responses add further costs. TinyFish, a web infrastructure [&#8230;]</p>
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