alt Hacker NewsWow... I'd like to know more. 40 analysts not spending 100USD/month is 4k/month saved. That means you break even in 27 months. But you probably used Claude much more than that.
Also what harness do you use? Any problems you encountered on the way?
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Anthropic is very good at either convincing or forcing (I’m not sure which) companies to pay for tokens rather than for subscriptions. My old job moved from subs to tokens and everyone started running out of budget mid month. It was a bad move for a company that laid off all of QA and 2/3 of Engineering and committed to everyone making up for it with LLMs.
Oh boy... we are talking about insane token spends in corps at the moment. 100$ is a blip.
I think you should compare with api cost? I am using $200 plan and it is probably around $12k in token cost....
Just one of our analysts was burning around 30-40 million tokens per project.
EDIT: per project, not per month
EDIT 2: digging out an old bill from 8 months ago when we bought the server, $14k per month is what we were running and it was going up, a lot.