
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.




Checked 6 October 2026. Catalog and cart tools on /api/mcp are removed. complete_checkout is off for both non-token tiers. Call UCP 2026-08-25 through an adapter, not an Admin token.
On September 29, 2026 AWS opened Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, in preview: 3 US Regions, no extra preview charge, and an 8-hour compute window in the AgentCore example. AWS runs the conversation. Your compute runs the tools.
On 25 September 2026 AWS published an SES skill for the MCP Server. The example is verify an identity and send a first production email. It does not warm a dedicated IP or pick Essentials versus Pro.
On 25 September 2026 AWS published agent skills for End User Messaging and SES. A delivered US Rich RCS text segment lists at $0.01194. A rich card lists at $0.02949. Pick the channel before you pick the model.
RCS for Business shipped 31 March 2026. A US Rich text segment lists at $0.01194 on delivery. A rich card lists at $0.02949. CLI 2.35.12 is the first release with send-rcs-message.
A US 10DLC number lists at $1 a month, a regular campaign at $10, and company vetting at $41.50. SMS is the OTP and the RCS fallback. It is the wrong place to build the rich agent.
Since 1 July 2025 WhatsApp on AWS is billed per message. The AWS fee is $0.005 outbound and $0.001 inbound. India Authentication and Utility are $0.002. Meta's fee is extra.
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