Trace digests for LLM monitoring, at 1/30th the price of Sonnet
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We run one LLM call on every agent trace we ingest: it reduces the trace to a short, searchable digest. Because it runs on every trace from every customer, it is the most frequent LLM call we make, and its cost is the one that grows fastest with our usage. So we tested whether a cheaper model could do it. Sonnet 4.6 writes that digest today at about $3.45 per 1,000 traces, and plenty of models cost a fraction of that. We put four of them against Sonnet on a frozen set of 50 traces. The one we…
1Key Takeaways
- We run one LLM call on every agent trace we ingest: it reduces the trace to a short, searchable digest.
- Because it runs on every trace from every customer, it is the most frequent LLM call we make, and its cost is the one that grows fastest with our usage.
- So we tested whether a cheaper model could do it.
- Sonnet 4.6 writes that digest today at about $3.45 per 1,000 traces, and plenty of models cost a fraction of that.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that we run one LLM call on every agent trace we ingest: it reduces the trace to a short, searchable digest.
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