Coding agent pricing comparison: cheapest LLM API for coding, cost per million tokens, from the OpenRouter price list as JSON and CSV. An AI model token price comparison repriced at a real agent mix — 95.6% cached input pricing, 6.5x off list: prompt caching price, cache read price, cache hit share, long context pricing, DeepSeek peak/off-peak.
3 of the 68 write-ups here are tagged Programming. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.
The “5-hour limit” on AI coding agents like Claude Code is the primary bottleneck for independent developers, forcing mid-flow halts just as you hit a rhythm.
The bottleneck in AI-assisted development moved, and most teams have not moved their tooling to follow it.
Most people budgeting for a coding assistant reason about it the way they reason about a printer, as though the cost tracked how much comes out.
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