Burned $5,300 of AI tokens in 30 days on a $300 subscription plan
theteknosaur · x · 2026-10-26
A dev's usage dashboard shows 11.8B tokens consumed in 30 days via Codex and Claude subscriptions — worth roughly $5,283.95 at list price — while paying only $300. "God I love capitalism." A vivid illustration of how deeply subscriptions underprice heavy agentic usage.
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