https://vicboomer.com/tags/software-economics/ Recent content in Software-Economics on Vic Boomer Hugo nl Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:45:00 +0200 https://vicboomer.com/essays/en-the-bill-of-agent-native/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:45:00 +0200 https://vicboomer.com/essays/en-the-bill-of-agent-native/ <p>As of March 31, 2026, OpenAI is changing the billing unit for its agent containers. Until then they were priced per memory tier, three cents per gigabyte. From March 31 onward they&rsquo;re priced per session of twenty minutes, with their own meter alongside the model. Two weeks earlier, Google introduced project-level spending caps in AI Studio, and enforces monthly per-tier caps from April 1. Gemini also offers Flex and Priority tiers, pricing variants on the same inference meter. Anthropic bills web search separately from tokens, at ten dollars per thousand calls, and runs Managed Agents on both tokens and session runtime.</p>