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Claude Code Cast · August 28 · 21 min

Same Model, 70x the Tokens—Your Harness Sets the Bill

Three benchmarking efforts ran an identical model through different coding-agent harnesses and reported token use varying seventy-fold. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam explain where harness tokens actually go, why Anthropic's Files API saves time but not money, and how to measure tokens-per-completed-task on your own repository before you switch tools.

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Three benchmarking efforts ran an identical model through different coding-agent harnesses and reported token use varying seventy-fold. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam explain where harness tokens actually go, why Anthropic's Files API saves time but not money, and how to measure tokens-per-completed-task on your own repository before you switch tools.

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