Hermes and Pi Agent led on the average cost per task, while Claude Code cost about 3.7x as much as Pi:
- $0.39 Hermes Agent
- $0.40 Pi Agent
- $0.47 Codex
- $0.51 OpenCode
- $0.54 Kimi Code
- $1.47 Claude Code
The median cost tells the same story: $0.29 in Pi Agent and Hermes, $0.35 in OpenCode, $0.38 in Kimi Code, $0.39 in Codex and $0.72 in Claude Code, so the cost gap holds for a typical task and is not driven by a few expensive runs.
We calculated these costs using Kimi K3’s list prices: $3/1M input tokens, $0.30/1M cached input tokens, and $15/1M output tokens.