
94,000 Trials Later, the Same Models Cost About 2× Under a Different Harness
On October 13, 2026 the Strands Agents team published about 94,000 Harbor trials. On matched Anthropic runs, estimated cost ran from about $0.74 to $1.57 per trial.
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On October 13, 2026 the Strands Agents team published about 94,000 Harbor trials. On matched Anthropic runs, estimated cost ran from about $0.74 to $1.57 per trial.
A feed file is not a catalog until it passes the gate. This design quarantines a failed file and waits on a Step Functions task token before release. The large-file cutover is 100 MB, a design choice, not a service limit.
Assume 8 state transitions and 200 approved signups in a month: 1,600 transitions. Step Functions Standard includes 4,000 free transitions a month in US East (N. Virginia) at $0.000025 after that. The workflow marks READY only after the health check.
PutRestoreValidationResult accepts FAILED, SUCCESSFUL, TIMED_OUT, or VALIDATING. Once the status is set, AWS says it cannot be changed. A completed restore job is not an application check until you run one.
On 19 October 2026 the CodeBuild pricing page bills its on-demand EC2 example at $0.005 a minute: 400 minutes after the 100-minute free tier is $2. The 23 September 2025 DORA report, from nearly 5,000 respondents, says 90% of organizations already run at least one internal platform.
Four sources, one check a day, 120 Scheduler invocations a month. That volume sits inside the 14 million free EventBridge Scheduler invocations. The check notices a missing file. It does not repair the export.
One Playwright canary, four steps, a five-minute schedule: 8,640 runs in a 30-day month. The script must show the payment step and must not click it. Interval cost stays on the existing Synthetics guide.
Delete is a late state. A legal hold stops the machine in HELD. One Scheduler invocation on the retention date sits inside the 14 million free EventBridge Scheduler invocations a month. The first write revokes access. It does not delete objects.
Checked 16 Oct 2026: Qwen Decider 2B v1 scores 180 of 231. Gemma 4 12B, released 15 Oct, scores 200 of 231 at a 136 ms H100 median. Jev stays $0.042/MTok, with no matching JevBench row.
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