## What’s Actually Inside 24,723 Tokens of a Search Result? We Broke It Down, Field by Field See how SerpApi’s Markdown output can cut search-result token usage by up to 74%, reducing AI agent costs and context-window overhead. It's no secret that AI agents burn massive amounts of tokens on search results and file retrievals. They pull in dozens of full-length files, logs, and comment blocks, and just reading through those matches can consume tens of thousands of tokens, not to mention the recursive loops that lock in when the agent reruns a query. Just a simple search like "look up coffee…