Alibaba.com on September 9, 2026, announced results from a 107-task benchmark evaluation showing that Accio, its AI agent platform for commerce, completed a range of e-commerce tasks at more than 50% lower estimated cost than OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code, with what the company described as comparable completion quality. Completing the full task set cost an estimated $3.69 with Accio, versus $9.27 for Codex and $9.51 for Claude Code, figures Alibaba.com described as more than 50%…