CLAIM-2026-09-04-02

Across 18 comparable single-ticket PRs in the same repository, Sonar measured an average of ~234 million context tokens per PR, ~$65 per PR (median ~$52), ~700 model round-trips per PR, and context windows routinely peaking between 450k and 975k tokens.

Why it matters

A mean of ~$65 against a median of ~$52 says the distribution has a tail. The tail is where the re-reading concentrates, so a team sampling its average PR will not see the problem.

Sources

• sonar2026smarter