# Monitoring cost explorer

Source: https://dinand.com/experiments/monitoring-cost-explorer/
Author: Dinand Tinholt

> Explore how portfolio size changes modeled oversight cost.

Compare proportional growth with the 1.466 exponent reported in the AGENESIS-2 simulation. Both scenarios begin at the same normalized cost.

Baseline portfolio sizePortfolio size: 64 agents

7.63×Fixed monitoring capacity

4.00×Proportional cost growth

Fixed monitoring capacity

Proportional growth

Normalized cost = (portfolio ÷ baseline)1.466. Proportional cost = portfolio ÷ baseline. No currency, actual workload or implementation cost is modeled.

## How to read this

Each doubling produces approximately 2.76 times the cost in the fixed-capacity curve and 2 times in the proportional curve. The gap illustrates the reported scaling behavior. It is not a budget forecast or a claim that an individual checking design will achieve these results in production.

[Read the study summary →](https://dinand.com/research/when-monitoring-stops-scaling/)

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