Enterprise AI agent bills are quietly becoming the new AWS bill. Most teams running coding agents on Claude Fable 5 or GPT-6 Astra have not done the math yet. Abacus.AI did it for them. On September 10, the company launched the Smaug line: three open-weight models fine-tuned specifically for long-running agentic loops, deployable inside your own VPC, and priced at open-source rates. The headline claim is 10 to 100x cheaper than frontier APIs. That number holds up, but with a few caveats worth reading before you spin up vLLM. Three Models, Three Deployment Profiles Smaug is not a single model. […]
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