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Claude opus 4.5 costs about 25$ per one million input tokens.
Well I manage to get to about 50 million input tokens per day regularly on the agent. Not everyday, but at least 7 per month. So I am alone cost the company about 2000$ extra on top of my salary.
Well they fixed it by implementing some great caching for the tokens and using sonnet instead of opus I can save some money too. Also gemini flash is much cheaper and similar performant. So you can fix it so you don’t burn money on ai
Our company pays by token usage.
Claude opus 4.5 costs about 25$ per one million input tokens.
Well I manage to get to about 50 million input tokens per day regularly on the agent. Not everyday, but at least 7 per month. So I am alone cost the company about 2000$ extra on top of my salary.
Well they fixed it by implementing some great caching for the tokens and using sonnet instead of opus I can save some money too. Also gemini flash is much cheaper and similar performant. So you can fix it so you don’t burn money on ai