An Hour With Our Top AI Agent Cost $13.42. You Can’t Hire Anyone For That.

SaaStr this week shared the economics of AI agents at scale. Their marketing agent, 10K, wrapped a focused hour of work—one hundred twenty-five separate actions, two thousand four hundred sixty-three lines read and analyzed—for thirteen dollars and forty-two cents. That's less than California's minimum wage, roughly a tenth what a human VP of Marketing costs per hour. The economics split in two parts: building capable agents is expensive, running them is nearly free. SaaStr's full agent stack—six production agents, fourteen published applications—serves one point nine million monthly requests for about twenty-three hundred dollars. The real constraint now isn't cost. It's how well your team can specify ambitious work and catch the edge cases an agent gets wrong.

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