Compare the first-call price with retries, verification, final failures, and human recovery. Enter your own task definition, volume, call cost, conditional pass rate, and retry limit. The interactive lab renders sticker-vs-outcome, cost-composition, and recovery break-even charts and exports an auditable receipt — free, no account.
In the illustrative starting scenario, an economy call costs $0.004 and a stronger one-shot costs $0.014. After expected retries and a $0.25 recovery cost, the economy route reaches $0.049 per completed task while the stronger route reaches $0.034. This is a scenario, not a model benchmark; replace every input with your own evidence.
Outcome Cost = first attempt + expected retries + evaluation + (final failure probability × recovery cost). Every attempt's reach probability and expected cost stays visible.
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