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Image 1 — I’m on a $100/month Claude Max plan. My last 30 days would’ve cost $1,593 via API.
Image 2 — I’m on a $100/month Claude Max plan. My last 30 days would’ve cost $1,593 via API.
Image 3 — I’m on a $100/month Claude Max plan. My last 30 days would’ve cost $1,593 via API.
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I’m on a $100/month Claude Max plan. My last 30 days would’ve cost $1,593 via API.

I’d consider myself a pretty normal power user.

No OpenClaw, no agentic swarms, no overnight automation. Just coding, researching, and planning inside Claude Code.

Last 30 days:

138 sessions

61.8M tokens

~$11.55 per session

Estimated API cost: $1,593

That’s about 15x the price of the Max plan.

What surprised me more is that I’m not even close to the heaviest users. The top builder on the leaderboard I use tracked over $7K in estimated API usage this month.

Feels like we’re at an interesting moment between flat subscriptions and usage-based pricing. Right now heavy users are massively subsidized.

Feels a bit like early Netflix before they cracked down on password sharing.

If you had to pay API pricing for your last 30 days, how much would it be?

u/solzange — 11 hours ago