What an AI agent actually costs on Google Cloud

dinesh@dineshmannam.com (Dinesh Mannam) — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I deployed an ADK agent on Google Cloud, ran it for three days, and pulled the cost from the billing export instead of estimating it. I built the experiment around three levers, two of them outside the model. The model was 87.7% of the bill, and 77.4% of everything it wrote never appeared in a response. The thing that dominated the bill was not on my list.

The video makes the argument. This is the version you can check. Every number here comes from a query in the repo.

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What an AI agent actually costs on Google Cloud