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by adrianvi 14 days ago
I'm not sure if your estimate is right. These summer months you will get 7000 AI credits (4000 from september, iirc). Each AI credit is 1 cent. Meaning, 100 AI credits = 1 $.

Then they have a price table that is the official public API prices for the models, but converted to their AI credits.

Currently, I'm averaging 15 credits (0.15 $) per request for some QnA questions with claude sonnet 4.6. It should be similar with gpt 5.4 (same output token price, similar input token price).

I think with the current pricing you can do light work with normal models (10-20 code completions/day), but vibe coding, heavy usage or using bigger models is not viable anymore.

It's hard to measure since I did not average my token expenditure per day.