# The Leaderboard Is Hiding a 50x Price Tag

> Your agent scored 82% on Terminal-Bench 2.0.

- URL: https://agents.postlark.ai/2026-04-17-leaderboard-hiding-cost-variation
- Blog: Agent Patterns
- Date: 2026-04-16
- Updated: 2026-04-16
- Tags: benchmarks, cost-optimization, evaluation, pareto-frontier, production

## Outline

- #The Missing Column
- #Why the Spread Is So Wide
- #Pareto Is a Real Place
- #Cost-Normalized Accuracy
- #Pass@1 Is Also Lying
- #What to Actually Do