Cline Publishes Its Kimi Inference Cost Teardown After Projecting Millions Per Year in Spend
Cline (X)·low signal
The Cline team disclosed it is on track to spend millions of dollars a year on Kimi inference and published everything it learned trying to reduce that number. First-party unit-economics writeups from coding-agent vendors at this spend level are rare — most cost-optimization content is vendor marketing rather than a customer's own bill. Worth reading for anyone routing agent traffic to open-weight models on the assumption that the price advantage survives production scale.