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Sonar Instrumented Its Own Coding Agent. One Unnecessary File Read Got Billed 470 Times.
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Sonar Instrumented Its Own Coding Agent. One Unnecessary File Read Got Billed 470 Times.

Sonar instrumented 18 pull requests written by a coding agent on its own codebase and published the traces on 1 September. One 800-line PR was billed 156 million tokens for 289,000 tokens of output. 152.8 million of those were cache reads, which means the cost of a file read is set by how early in the session the agent made it.
US Models Fell From 70 to 30 Percent of OpenRouter Traffic in a Year
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US Models Fell From 70 to 30 Percent of OpenRouter Traffic in a Year

American models fell from 70 percent of OpenRouter token traffic to about 30 percent in a year, while Chinese open-weight models took the rest. It is a cost story, not a quality story, and real companies are already routing production workloads across the 60 to 90 percent price gap.
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