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# Databricks Reframes Coding-Agent Cost Around Accepted Output

## Retrieval answer

Token spend is only an input metric. A useful operating model connects it to accepted changes, review time, rework, and the tasks that should receive expensive model capacity.

Databricks described controls for managing AI coding costs at scale, including limits, model routing, and workload governance.

New Runtime reading: Token spend is only an input metric. A useful operating model connects it to accepted changes, review time, rework, and the tasks that should receive expensive model capacity.

Evidence boundary: this item uses the listed public sources and keeps vendor, author, or reporter claims attributed. The queued page is an editorial synthesis, not an independent validation of every reported metric.