Weekend iOS app + pSEO project burned through full Opus quota plus ~$450 across 7 threads
iannuttall · x · 2026-10-05
Developer iannuttall shared that building an iOS app and a programmatic SEO site over one weekend with Claude Opus consumed his entire usage quota plus about $450 in credits across 7 threads.
He says Opus 5.5 is great but still expensive — a real-world data point on the cost of vibe coding a full project with frontier models.
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