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It's possible that prices will go up (although the cost of pure inference tends to go down; the question is more how to amortize the cost of training new models
by bambax 7mo ago
It's possible that prices will go up (although the cost of pure inference tends to go down; the question is more how to amortize the cost of training new models).
But this is absurd:
> the cheapest usable tier of Claude Code is $100/mo
If you pay by the token instead of with a subscription, and don't send the entirety of your code base with each request, costs are ridiculously low. Like, $50 will last a minimum of 3 months of heavy use on openrouter.
It's also far from certain everyone needs the latest version of the best "frontier model"; it very much depends on what you do.
- cactusplant7374 7mo agoI am imagining working for a company in the future where prompt reviews are required because the company is cheap.
- barrkel 7mo ago$50 will last you a good long time if you don't use many tokens, and you are judicious about which model you use, and don't need web search much. However, on a fixed price plan your behavior changes. It's a qualitative change in how you work, rather than quantitative. Ideation and product design and specification start becoming bottlenecks. I started out the API route. I started spending $100 a month once I was spending upawards of $10 in tokens a session.