Dev shares $5,107 monthly AI bill: 10B tokens, DeepSeek cost $0.70
cneuralnetwork · x · 2026-10-26
A heavy AI user posted his real October API spend: $4,214.48 on Codex for 7.63B tokens, $892.33 on Claude for 2.21B tokens, and just $0.70 on DeepSeek API for 50M tokens — $5,107.71 in total for nearly 10 billion tokens. He notes most usage was covered by subscriptions rather than raw API billing. The numbers also lay out the staggering unit-price gap between frontier models and DeepSeek.
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