vinney...axkl14d agoAm I doing something wrong, or does Alex have some source of cheap tokens? My openclaw experiments indicate that "political dissidents" would be thousands of dollars in the hole per month to Anthropic if they used their claws to do anything significant.
Don't get me wrong, the possibilities are exciting - but the price tag seems prohibitive for anything other than luxury use for now?
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mleku14d agoidk but at $200/month claude max 20x i could produce way more text than i could actually read, as it is, i spend more of that resource writing code.
claude is actually the cheapest LLM i have found. i blew 200 my first month using cursor, and got less done than i could do with the $100/month 5x max, by maybe a factor of 100. what i have now is at least 4x that.
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vinney...axkl14d agomaybe i'm on the wrong plan or something. i keep getting api recharge invoices every few hours and it's making me wonder how anyone is doing this
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Zsubmariner14d agoI tried to get a sense, based on token usage trends and real costs of resources, what heavy AI use would probably cost if it wasn't subsidized. Came up with 15k per month per worker. Get it while the getting's good. Not sure if the bubble will burst before costs fall and productivity results get a lot better, but it looks that way
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Diacone Frost14d agoidk, but with opencode, I spend like nothing. I built 3 fully functional (and actually good) web apps, without writing a single line of code, and it cost me $20.
I mostly use gpt 5.1 codex mini for coding and grok-4 fast for planning (or codex mini only).
for one pet project I use local models only (still impressive results) and electricity bill is likely going to be more expensive 🤣
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gladstein13d agoSponsoring a dissident at $200/month is a great deal
Plus Anthropic is giving out free tokens to non profits
But ideally this ends with local models
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