Heavy Claude user: Pro/Max subscription is ~31x cheaper than API pricing
doodlestein · x · 2026-09-25
Developer doodlestein shows a week of usage worth $109.6 at API rates, while actual subscription spend was closer to $3,500/year equivalent — making Claude Pro/Max roughly 31.3x cheaper than the API, in line with other recent estimates. His tokscale stats across a fleet of dev machines now exceed 2T tokens total, peaking at 43.8B tokens in a single day, and exclude pre-February 2026 usage.
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