Developer says Sol burns through usage in hours, asks how teams afford $10K-$20K/month
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-07-23
A developer says Sol burns through their allowed usage within hours and asks how anyone can afford to run serious projects without spending $10K–$20K/month.
They float the usual workarounds: multiple Codex accounts, running everything locally on weaker models, or just trusting tools like Composer and Luna not to break things. The post is basically a blunt snapshot of the current cost pain in agentic coding workflows.
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