{
  "slug": "cost-curve-workbench",
  "title": "Cost Curve Workbench",
  "stage": "Preview",
  "audience": "Finance and platform teams",
  "summary": "A calculator-style tool for converting token pricing into workload cost curves, batch discounts, cache effects, and per-resolution economics.",
  "href": "/studio/cost-curve-workbench",
  "problem": "Token prices do not tell a finance team what production AI will cost. The Workbench converts workload shape into cost per accepted output, including retries, tool calls, cache hit rate, batching, and review fallout.",
  "metrics": [
    "Cost per 1k tasks",
    "Cache savings",
    "Batch savings",
    "Reasoning-token exposure"
  ],
  "outputs": [
    "Cost curve",
    "Scenario table",
    "Savings waterfall",
    "Budget envelope"
  ],
  "buyerQuestions": [
    "What will this cost at 10k, 100k, or 1M workflows?",
    "How much do retries and human review change the answer?",
    "When does prompt caching materially matter?",
    "Which model class is cheap after quality is included?"
  ],
  "evidenceLinks": [
    [
      "Cost Efficiency Index",
      "/leaderboards#cost-efficiency-index"
    ],
    [
      "Cost curves article",
      "/articles/cost-curves-for-frontier-reasoning-models"
    ],
    [
      "Prompt caching article",
      "/articles/prompt-caching-batch-api-and-the-real-ai-cost-stack"
    ]
  ],
  "demoState": "Live calculator surface is available; next release should connect to official provider pricing refresh scripts.",
  "catalogRank": 7,
  "maturity": "Can be shown as a product demo today",
  "packetPath": "/reports/studio/cost-curve-workbench.md",
  "jsonPath": "/reports/studio/cost-curve-workbench.json",
  "previewImage": "/reports/studio/previews/cost-curve-workbench.png",
  "previewAlt": "Cost Curve Workbench live Studio preview screenshot",
  "demoReadinessScore": 82,
  "demoReadiness": "Demo-ready with current generated traces and interactive controls; replace screenshots with product walkthrough video when available.",
  "missingForLiveDemo": [
    "Product walkthrough video",
    "Client-approved example",
    "Real run export"
  ],
  "handoffOwner": "Sanjay Prasad",
  "nextDemoArtifact": "/reports/studio/cost-curve-workbench.md"
}