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A developer shares that they processed $157,143 worth of tokens in a single month while only paying $400, using two $200/month subscriptions — OpenAI's Codex plan and Anthropic's Claude plan. The core argument is that AI labs are currently subsidizing usage heavily due to competitive pressure, and developers should take advantage of this pricing gap before it closes. The advice is simple: stop treating tokens as scarce, use flat-rate subscriptions aggressively, and ship projects now while the economics are this favorable.

I burned $157,143 in tokens last month. I paid $400.

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Hear me out, maybe the ‘steal’ is a marketing ploy to get more users to ‘abuse’ their platform? Otherwise, I don’t understand the 99.87% loss business plan.

What to be proud of???
This is like saying “look at me, I spent tons of fresh water and electricity worth tons and paid little!”
That’s simply not caring at all about society and other people. Datacenters use a lot of fresh water and electricity and this is major environmental issue. Just like you don’t just leave your home’s water tap open 24/7 if it was allowed free to you, you shouldn’t do it also with AI (until it become environmental sane)

Try capping review time per project, even with flat-rate tokens

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