Benchmark
Agent Cost Per Task: Benchmarks Across Use Cases
What should an autonomous agent task cost? Benchmarks for code generation, research, data processing, and customer support agents.
By the sipi.bot team · Published 2026-07-19
Benchmark Data
Code generation tasks average $0.15-0.80 per task depending on model. Research agents average $1.20-4.50 per query. Data processing agents: $0.30-2.00. Customer support: $0.05-0.25 per interaction. These are medians — poorly-optimized agents can 10x these numbers.
What This Means for Your Agents
These benchmarks show that agent costs are predictable with proper controls. The variance between well-managed and unmanaged agents is 10-50x — making a spend firewall one of the highest-ROI infrastructure investments for agent deployments.