Comment by Aeolun
5 months ago
I don’t think you need to be a business to use the API? At least I’m fairly certain I’m using it in a personal capacity. You are never going to hit $120/month even with full-time usage (no guarantees of course, but I get to like $40/month).
Careful -- a solo dev using it professionally, meaning, coding with it as a pair coder (XP style), can easily spend $1500/week.
$1500 is 100 million output tokens, or 500 million input tokens for Claude 3.7.
The entire LOTR trilogy is ~.55 million tokens (1,200 pages, published).
If you are sending and receiving the text equivalent of several hundred copies of the LOTR trilogy every week, I don't think you are actually using AI for anything useful, or you are providing far too much context.