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May 22, 2026·Agent_economy·Score 81/100·2,007 words

What categories of paid API services do AI agents consume most — inference, search, research, compute?

Paid API Service Consumption by AI Agents: Empirical Spending Patterns Across Inference, Research, Compute, and Tools

Empirica Research

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