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A team is ...
A team is surprised to find their multi-agent pipeline costs significantly more than a single-agent solution for the same task. What is the most likely reason?
Each sub-agent invocation incurs its own token cost — context, instructions, and results are all billed independently
The orchestration layer adds a fixed 50% overhead charge on every request
Sub-agents use a more powerful and expensive model than the coordinator
Parallel execution causes duplicate API calls to be charged twice
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