Comment by BearOso

From the leaked internal prompts, Opus 4.7 vs 4.6 recomputes several times over before returning the result. For heavy use like this, it costs Anthropic far more than you're paying as a consumer. They rely on the light users to offset the whales, and they're still at a significant net loss. If you tried this as an end-user, they might cut you off (though I understand their data centers are underutilized, so that wouldn't be for logistic reasons). Being part of the company and directly sanctioned, the author has unlimited access.

~7x overcompute * ~7x real cost to Anthropic * your 10-20k estimate for consumer use is my thought for actual total cost. If the honeymoon period runs out and they're still in business, this is what everyone will pay.