The Linux Foundation's Tokenomics Foundation, launched in August 2026, held its first event, Tokenomicon + FinOps X, in Amsterdam on September 22–23, gathering more than 500 FinOps and tokenomics prac…
RTK, a Rust proxy that claims to cut LLM token consumption by 60-90% and has crossed 80,000 GitHub stars, produced zero reduction in actual API billing in a Quesma benchmark that spent over $1,500 acr…
Quesma hosted its first token economics hackathon, Session #5 of the Vibe Coding Summer Jam series, where five student teams analyzed 18 GB of coding-agent transcripts over one Friday evening to find …
Benchmarks costing over $1,500 found that RTK, a terminal output compression tool, cut costs by only 5% for Claude Code with Fable 5.0 while raising costs by 5% for OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813,…
Polish software engineer Piotr Migdał, founding engineer at AI analytics firm Quesma, tested 16 AI models on 1,040 photos of 55 mushroom species and found that even the best model, Gemini-3.8-flash, c…
A Quesma test found that a single typical pull request consumed $270 of OpenAI Codex overflow usage within 24 hours on an OpenAI Business ChatGPT & Codex plan ($25/seat/month), exhausting the weekly l…
In mid-August, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Grok 4.6, GLM-5.3, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 joined the frontier of LLM releases, and Quesma's Baba Is Bench rerun shows Gemini 3.7 Flash solving every trial at over 20…
Quesma, a database observability company, published an open, curated list of 218 tools, papers, and practices for reducing token costs in LLM and agent workflows, covering monitoring, semantic caching…
Claude Opus 5 achieved 100% pass@3 on the Baba Is You Intro stage, outperforming Kimi K3 (96%), Gemini 3.6 Flash (88%), and Grok 4.5 (75%) in a benchmark by Quesma, while also being more cost-effectiv…
A Quesma researcher burned through an entire Claude team x5 plan token limit in 30 minutes while researching AI agent tokenomics, prompting a redesign that uses multiple subscription services and chea…
Quesma engineer Piotr Migdal tested Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 27B model for local development and concluded it is viable for coding and general-purpose tasks, shifting the threshold for when developers shoul…