The quote from Forbes in the article is a claim that a subscription could use up to 5k worth of tokens.
Which is different from actaully costing 5k in tokens per Claude Code user. As users won't max out their subscriptions. And there doesn't seem to be any stronger claim elsewhere in the article.
But the title is about a strawman that it would cost Anthropic 5k per user which it seems nobody claimed.
The quote from Forbes in the article is a claim that a subscription could use up to 5k worth of tokens.
Which is different from actaully costing 5k in tokens per Claude Code user. As users won't max out their subscriptions. And there doesn't seem to be any stronger claim elsewhere in the article.
But the title is about a strawman that it would cost Anthropic 5k per user which it seems nobody claimed.