# Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Coding-Agent Cost Audit

Coding agents can save engineering time and still hide expensive usage patterns: repeated repository context, long tool traces, high-reasoning defaults, retry loops, eval sweeps, and background tasks running on premium models.

Intelligence Per Watt offers a fixed-price review of coding-agent spend and workflow patterns. The output is a written diagnosis of where cost is probably leaking and which changes are safe to test first.

## What Gets Reviewed

Use sanitized exports, screenshots, or aggregate notes from tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, API gateways, provider dashboards, or internal telemetry.

Useful fields include:

- workflow or task type
- model or reasoning level
- input, output, cached, and reasoning tokens
- tool-call volume
- repeated context or log payloads
- retry count and failure reason
- eval and test-loop frequency
- latency tolerance
- rough cost per merged change, ticket, eval run, or successful task

## Common Cost Leaks

- repo context repeatedly reloaded into long context
- test output and logs copied back into premium reasoning loops
- high-reasoning defaults used for low-risk edits
- full eval suites running on unchanged prompt paths
- duplicate issue triage, summarization, and formatting work
- no cache boundary around stable instructions or tool schemas
- background analysis that should run asynchronously or in batch

## Offers

- **$29 coding-agent usage rescue:** short written recommendation from a sanitized status panel and workflow note.
- **$99 cost leak triage:** concise written diagnosis from sanitized usage patterns.
- **$299 24-hour bill roast:** ranked findings, rough savings model, and recommended safe experiments.

Start here:

https://www.intelligenceperwatt.com/coding-agent-cost-roast

General intake:

https://www.intelligenceperwatt.com/roast-my-llm-bill

Free checklist:

https://www.intelligenceperwatt.com/llm-cost-triage-checklist.md

Sample roast:

https://www.intelligenceperwatt.com/sample-coding-agent-roast.md

General sample:

https://www.intelligenceperwatt.com/sample-bill-roast.md

## Data Policy

Do not share source code, secrets, API keys, private repo contents, raw prompts, raw outputs, customer data, or credentials. Sanitized counts and screenshots are enough for the first pass.