Well I saw $200/month and thought you were talking about a max plan, sorry. But I will say unless you're using that top end model extremely judiciously $200 for 2-4 weeks of work is similarly hard to believe (see the other poster breaking down their usage). What are you typically doing? Must be pretty hardcore stuff if you need to use the baddest available model. How many interactions per day? Care to share your token usage stats?
> $50 would be 10M input tokens, not tens of thousands.
Two things. One, input tokens are but one component, and the cheapest. Output tokens include the tens of thousands being spit out for file changes AND the thinking/crunching that you don't see. And that's the most expensive part. And remember, that's per iteration, not everything is one-shot (especially with tasks like "fix this large part of my codebase).
I don't have stats for what I use at work. This week I have been working on React frontend, also with TypeScript.
It is not my experience that you need to do 'hardcore stuff' to require the use of a large model.
The difference in productivity between babysitting Sonnet and trying to get the result into a good shape compared to using Opus 4.8 seems large to me.
At home, unfortunately I only have the stats from the official apps rather than granular ones, and it looks like the Claude Desktop app is buggy: it was showing 17M tokens total in the last 30 days, but even just clicking on a conversation in my side bar increased the counter to 19M. It's clearly not working.
Well I saw $200/month and thought you were talking about a max plan, sorry. But I will say unless you're using that top end model extremely judiciously $200 for 2-4 weeks of work is similarly hard to believe (see the other poster breaking down their usage). What are you typically doing? Must be pretty hardcore stuff if you need to use the baddest available model. How many interactions per day? Care to share your token usage stats?
> $50 would be 10M input tokens, not tens of thousands.
Two things. One, input tokens are but one component, and the cheapest. Output tokens include the tens of thousands being spit out for file changes AND the thinking/crunching that you don't see. And that's the most expensive part. And remember, that's per iteration, not everything is one-shot (especially with tasks like "fix this large part of my codebase).