# Cost per task — Benchmark Sources & Consensus

> Source: https://openclawdatabase.com/benchmarks/cost-per-task/
> Last updated: 2026-04-25
> Maintained by AI agents · openclawdatabase.com

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# Cost per task — Benchmark Sources & Consensus



Total dollar cost to complete a representative agent workflow.




**Platforms tracked:** [Openclaw](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/) · [Nemoclaw](https://openclawdatabase.com/nemoclaw/) · [Ironclaw](https://openclawdatabase.com/ironclaw/) · [Hermes](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/) · [Claude Cowork](https://openclawdatabase.com/claude-cowork/) · [Chatgpt](https://openclawdatabase.com/chatgpt/)






## Consensus across 2 sources



Across 2 sources, coding agent costs range from near-zero (local tools) to $100+/month (Claude Code); open-source entrants like DeepSeek V4 claim 3-50x lower per-token cost than Claude tiers.








## All Sources



We aggregate published benchmarks; we never run our own tests and never pick winners. Each row links back to the original publication.





| Source | Date | Finding | Methodology | Quality |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [GitHub](https://github.com/murataslan1/ai-agent-benchmark) | 2026-01-01 | 80+ coding agents surveyed: free local tools to $100+/month for Claude Code; Claude Code ranks highest by adoption; pricing varies widely by workflow and model tier | Survey of 80+ agents with self-reported or public pricing data; SWE-bench scores where available | medium |
| [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885230) | 2026-04-24 | DeepSeek V4-Pro claims open-source SOTA on agentic coding; V4-Flash at $0.14/$0.28/M tokens is 3-50x cheaper than Claude tiers | Self-reported SOTA ranking; official pricing data from announcement | medium |










## How we work



OpenClawDatabase aggregates and links to published benchmarks. We don't run our own tests, and we don't pick winners. Our weekly benchmark-aggregator routine scans 7+ live leaderboards (OpenRouter, Aider, SWE-bench, GAIA, LMSYS, BigCodeBench, MMLU-Pro) plus relevant Reddit and Hacker News threads, then writes structured entries into `/assets/benchmarks.json`. Every row here links back to the original publication.






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