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Originally published at WowHow Since 14 October 2026 the Claude API can send one OpenTelemetry trace per request or Managed Agents session to the observability backend you already run, and the first thing to decide is the destination's content mode: Metadata only or Full content. [4] Metadata only exports identifiers, timing, status and token counts. Full content also exports prompts and responses, and they then live under your backend's retention rules, not Anthropic's. [2] The feature is in public beta. An organization admin adds a destination in the Claude Console, you need no code changes for the server-side half, and an optional SDK half adds client spans that join the same trace. This post covers what each half does, the exact Console fields, a Honeycomb walk-through, the span names worth knowing, and what the docs say about limits and delivery. TL;DR Two independent halves: API spans (emitted by Anthropic, delivered to a destination you register) and SDK spa...

Claude Opus 4.7 costs $5/MTok input. GPT-4o costs $2.50/MTok input. Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25/MTok for short prompts. The cheapest option for your use case depends on factors most pricing pages hide — here is the full breakdown. Continue reading the full article on WowHow → Originally published at https://wowhow.cloud/blogs/ai-api-cost-calculator-claude-gpt-gemini-pricing-2026

You can build a functional AI agent — one that reads files, searches the web, executes tasks, and handles errors gracefully — in 30 minutes with the Claude API and Model Context Protocol. This is the complete tutorial with working Python and TypeScript code, the agent loop architecture, system prompt design, tool definitions, and deployment to production. Continue reading the full article on WowHow → Originally published at https://wowhow.cloud/blogs/build-first-ai-agent-30-minutes-zero-to-production-2026