# Agents and Tasks Token count

**URL:** <https://community.crewai.com/t/agents-and-tasks-token-count/4384>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 4, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/agents-and-tasks-token-count/4384 "2025-03-04T21:46:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kapenge\_Lenco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.crewai.com/kapenge_lenco/32/1946_2.png) [@Kapenge\_Lenco](https://community.crewai.com/u/Kapenge_Lenco)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/agents-and-tasks-token-count/4384/1 "2025-03-04T21:46:48Z")

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Hello,

I was wondering if the combination of an agent alongside his associated task being roughly 500 tokens if is too much, considering costs optimizations and performance.

Regards,

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**Author:** ![zinyando](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.crewai.com/zinyando/32/4435_2.png) [@zinyando](https://community.crewai.com/u/zinyando)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/agents-and-tasks-token-count/4384/2 "2025-03-05T05:15:40Z")

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It depends with the task, the more detailed and nuanced the results you want the higher the number of tokens. So I think it’s dependent on the task.

On the other hand it also depends with the LLM you are using. LLMs are cheap these days so it might not even matter

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**Author:** ![Kapenge\_Lenco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.crewai.com/kapenge_lenco/32/1946_2.png) [@Kapenge\_Lenco](https://community.crewai.com/u/Kapenge_Lenco)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 8:04am UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/agents-and-tasks-token-count/4384/3 "2025-03-05T08:04:34Z")

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Cheap, depends on the part of the world where you are 😅

Thanks!