AN F1 TEAM'S SPENDING IS CAPPED AT $135 MILLION A SEASON. ONE LAP OF YOUR ANIMATION LOOP COSTS ABOUT…

AN F1 TEAM'S SPENDING IS CAPPED AT $135 MILLION A SEASON. ONE LAP OF YOUR ANIMATION LOOP COSTS ABOUT 7 CENTS. One lap is one round: patch, render, critique. Example round at Opus 5.5 prices: > 3,200 output tokens × $20/M = $0.064 > 1,500 input tokens × $4/M = $0.006 > 2,400 cached tokens × $0.20/M = $0.0005 = $0.0705 a lap The board over the line counts what's left after each round: 9 → 6 → 3 → 2 → 1 → 0 The flag drops on the lap that empties the list. Five laps, $0.35. Cents instead of dollars changes the right number of rounds from one to however many it takes. Loop until the discrepancy list is empty, then watch it yourself. The cost of iterating, in the article👇