---
title: "Cost Simulator"
description: "Pre-purchase token cost simulation — run real task profiles against any model and see exact dollar burn before committing to a package."
pubDate: 2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z
tags: ["explore"]
---

## Mission Objective

Cost Simulator wraps pi.dev's agent harness in a pricing engine that meters token burn in real time. Users pick a task profile (code-gen, translate, analysis, chat-sim, thinking), select a model, and watch cumulative cost accrue against tikoly.com package tiers.

## Current Operations

The pricing interceptor subscribes to the agent event stream and overrides provider list prices with tikoly.com's rate card. Session files produce JSONL traces with per-request cost breakdowns. Users can fork sessions to compare the same task across different models side by side.