Correction
The quiet economics of inference
The earlier article attributed a general claim about tool-call costs and failures to Google Cloud without a supporting document. We withdraw that attribution.
Anthropic discusses the latency and cost tradeoffs of agentic systems and the possibility of compounding errors. This supports evaluating a complete workflow; it does not provide a price or failure rate for any individual tool call.
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