A thousand verified trajectories for eight cents.
Every catalog procedure, performed through pointer and keyboard, every frame rendered, replayed to the byte and passed by its own checks: 7.2 s on one CPU core, or $0.08 per thousand. The cheapest computer-use agent comes to about $305 per thousand, because it pays for every screenshot it reads and every attempt that fails.
The ComputerWorld rows and one DeepSeek sample are measured. The other rows are estimates built from published prices and success rates over the catalog’s 89 actions per trajectory at 1280×800. Each assumption gives the agent the benefit of the doubt; the table lists them with sources.