User burns $107 in 90 minutes on Claude Code Cloud, billed like an API key
MicahBerkley · x · 2026-10-06
A user reports Claude Code Cloud is extremely expensive: $107 spent in an hour and a half. His key complaint: you are effectively billed as if using an API key, something not clearly communicated upfront—a real cost concern for heavy agent-coding users.
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