alt Hacker NewsI calculated only last weekend that my team would cost, if we would run Claude Code on retail API costs, around $200k/mo. We pay $1400/month in Max subscriptions. So that's $50k/user... But what tokens CC is reporting in their json -> a lot of this must be cached etc, so doubt it's anywhere near $50k cost, but not sure how to figure out what it would cost and I'm sure as hell not going to try.
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Gemini CLI shows how much was saved through caching each session, and it's usually somewhere around 90%
I'm surprised, isn't it forbidden to use the Max plan as part of a company? Just curious, as I thought it was forbidden by the ToS but I'm not sure if I have a good understanding of it
You can use `npx ccusage` to check your local logs and see how much it would have cost through the API.
> but not sure how to figure out what it would cost and I'm sure as hell not going to try.
Ask Opus to figure out how much it would cost. Lol.
I'm fascinated to know the kind of work that allows you to intelligently allocate so much resources. I use Claude extensively and feel that I great value out of it but I reach a limit in terms of what I can do that makes sense relatively quickly it seems.