{
  "answer": "8 results for \"cost per success\". Best: What cheaper cache reads change in VulcanBench (https://bozos.si/notes/vulcanbench-cache-reads). Open the page before citing it.",
  "query": "cost per success",
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    "cost",
    "per",
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    {
      "resource_id": "vulcanbench-cache-audit",
      "title": "What cheaper cache reads change in VulcanBench",
      "url": "https://bozos.si/notes/vulcanbench-cache-reads",
      "type": "text/html",
      "kind": "audit",
      "markdown_url": "https://bozos.si/notes/vulcanbench-cache-reads.md",
      "updated": "2026-10-09",
      "score": 17,
      "snippet": "…he-read rate cuts the estimated Sonnet sweep by 27.44%. The cost-per-success comparison tells a subtler story.  Last significant update: 2026-10-09. Audit / Pricing October 9, 2026 Using a cache-read price of $0.10 instead of $0.20 per mill…"
    },
    {
      "resource_id": "cache-price-calculator",
      "title": "Cache-price calculator",
      "url": "https://bozos.si/calculator",
      "type": "text/html",
      "kind": "calculator",
      "updated": "2026-10-09",
      "score": 15,
      "snippet": "Reprice recorded cache reads and compare cost per attempt with cost per observed success, using frozen audit presets or your own inputs."
    },
    {
      "resource_id": "vulcanbench-cache-audit",
      "title": "What cheaper cache reads change in VulcanBench",
      "section": "The Medium comparison",
      "url": "https://bozos.si/notes/vulcanbench-cache-reads",
      "type": "text/html",
      "kind": "audit",
      "markdown_url": "https://bozos.si/notes/vulcanbench-cache-reads.md",
      "updated": "2026-10-09",
      "score": 12,
      "snippet": "Sonnet’s estimate falls from $3.0022 to $2.0711 per task, below Opus’s $2.8422. Sonnet passed 17 of 23 tasks; Opus passed all 23. Dividing total spending by the number of observed successes puts Sonnet at $2.8021, only slightly below Opus. …"
    },
    {
      "resource_id": "cost-per-success-explainer",
      "title": "The denominator does the damage",
      "section": "Two prices for the same work",
      "url": "https://bozos.si/notes/cost-per-success",
      "type": "text/html",
      "kind": "explainer",
      "markdown_url": "https://bozos.si/notes/cost-per-success.md",
      "updated": "2026-10-09",
      "score": 12,
      "snippet": "…io](https://bozos.si/notes/vulcanbench-cache-reads), Sonnet costs about $2.07 per attempt. Opus costs about $2.84. That looks like a comfortable gap. Now include the outcomes. Sonnet passed 17 of 23 tasks; Opus passed 23 of 23. The spending…"
    },
    {
      "resource_id": "cost-per-success-explainer",
      "title": "The denominator does the damage",
      "section": "Keep the failed runs on the receipt",
      "url": "https://bozos.si/notes/cost-per-success",
      "type": "text/html",
      "kind": "explainer",
      "markdown_url": "https://bozos.si/notes/cost-per-success.md",
      "updated": "2026-10-09",
      "score": 9,
      "snippet": "Cost per observed success = total spending / successes  This is different from averaging only the successful runs. Throwing away the cost of failures would make the experiment look cheaper than it was. It also isn’t a forecast of what repea…"
    },
    {
      "resource_id": "vulcanbench-cache-audit",
      "title": "What cheaper cache reads change in VulcanBench",
      "section": "What does a different rate change?",
      "url": "https://bozos.si/notes/vulcanbench-cache-reads",
      "type": "text/html",
      "kind": "audit",
      "markdown_url": "https://bozos.si/notes/vulcanbench-cache-reads.md",
      "updated": "2026-10-09",
      "score": 5,
      "snippet": "…nto the calculator, change the cache-read rate, and compare cost per attempt with cost per observed success. [Open the calculator →](https://bozos.si/calculator)"
    },
    {
      "resource_id": "vulcanbench-cache-audit",
      "title": "What cheaper cache reads change in VulcanBench",
      "section": "Read next",
      "url": "https://bozos.si/notes/vulcanbench-cache-reads",
      "type": "text/html",
      "kind": "audit",
      "markdown_url": "https://bozos.si/notes/vulcanbench-cache-reads.md",
      "updated": "2026-10-09",
      "score": 3,
      "snippet": "[The denominator does the damage →](https://bozos.si/notes/cost-per-success) The shorter explanation of why a cheap attempt can leave an expensive task unfinished."
    },
    {
      "resource_id": "windows-365-for-agents",
      "title": "Even the AI gets a company computer",
      "section": "Read next",
      "url": "https://bozos.si/notes/even-ai-company-computer",
      "type": "text/html",
      "kind": "docs-review",
      "markdown_url": "https://bozos.si/notes/even-ai-company-computer.md",
      "updated": "2026-10-11",
      "score": 3,
      "snippet": "[The denominator does the damage →](https://bozos.si/notes/cost-per-success) A closer look at what changes when you count completed jobs instead of attempts."
    }
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