Strands Agents provides native telemetry and cost tracking out of the box. Stop writing custom token counters. Building AI agents is easy. Deploying them to production is where most teams hit a wall. One of the first questions from finance: "How much will this cost per request?" Most agent frameworks make you build your own token counter. Strands Agents gives you one. The Problem with Custom Token Counting Every AI application needs cost monitoring. But tracking tokens across: Multiple model calls Tool invocations Prompt caching Multi-agent workflows ...requires custom infrastructure most teams rebuild from scratch. Native Telemetry in Strands Agents Strands Agents includes production-grade telemetry by default: from strands import Agent from strands_tools import calculator # Create an agent with tools agent = Agent ( tools = [ calculator ]) # Invoke the agent with a prompt and get an AgentResult result = agent ( " What is the square root of 144?…