In the News: September 2, 2026
A benchmark holding the model fixed found a 17-fold cost gap between the cheapest and priciest coding-agent harnesses.
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A harness benchmark puts a 17-fold cost gap on running the same model
Runta, a startup selling what it calls an agent execution layer, ran 360 trials across twelve harness configurations, including Codex, Claude Code, Pi, three DeepSeek Harness variants, Kimi Code, Exo Harness, OpenCode, and Hermes, on…
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