> I use frontier models via API pre-paid tokens every single day, and I can barely rack up $100 per month.
According to ccusage (https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage) if I didn’t have the 100 USD Max subscription, I’d have to pay Anthropic around 4173 USD for the month of May.
Input │ Output │ Cache Create │ Cache Read │ Total Tokens │ Cost (USD)
1,948,016 │ 19,435,081 │ 103,626,350 │ 6,244,194,278 │ 6,369,203,725 │ $4173.09
Edit: pulled the latest numbers, not using Fast mode at all, but still Opus for most tasks.
Nothing too egregious with my usage patterns, typically Claude Code just churning tasks in 1-2 projects at a time, sometimes while I’m asleep - and I hit around 60-80% of the weekly caps most of the time.
According to ccusage (https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage) if I didn’t have the 100 USD Max subscription, I’d have to pay Anthropic around 4173 USD for the month of May.
Edit: pulled the latest numbers, not using Fast mode at all, but still Opus for most tasks.Nothing too egregious with my usage patterns, typically Claude Code just churning tasks in 1-2 projects at a time, sometimes while I’m asleep - and I hit around 60-80% of the weekly caps most of the time.