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I've ended up with $5K+ in a month using sonnet 3.7, had to dial it back. I'm much happier with gemini 2.5 pro right now for high performance at a much more re
by ai-christianson 2y ago
I've ended up with $5K+ in a month using sonnet 3.7, had to dial it back.
I'm much happier with gemini 2.5 pro right now for high performance at a much more reasonable cost (primarily using with RA.Aid, but I've tried it with Windsurf, cline, and roo.)
- triyambakam 2y agoThat's the largest I've heard of. Can you share more detail about what you're working on that consumes so many tokens?
- ai-christianson 2y agoIt's really easy to get to $100 in a day using sonnet 3.7 or o3 in a coding agent. Do that every day for a month and you're already at $3k/month. It's not hard to get to $5k from there.
- triyambakam 2y agoSure but how? Still wondering more specifically what you're doing. And 3-5k is unfortunately my entire month's salary
- ai-christianson 2y agoI'm developing an open source coding agent (RA.Aid). I'm using RA.Aid to develop itself (dogfooding,) so I'm constantly running the coding agent. That cost is my peak cost, not average. It's easy to scale back costs to 1/10 the cost and still get 90% of the quality. Basically that means using models like gemini 2.5 pro or Deepseek v3 (even cheaper) rather than expensive models like sonnet 3.7 and o3.
- skeptrune 2y agoHoooly hell. I swear the AI coding products are basically slot machines.
- Implicated 2y agoOr the people using them are literally clueless.
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoJust try the most superior model deep-seek