Comment by carsoon
2 hours ago
Yea if i use opus 5.5 in api through openrouter and pi agent harness I will easily burn 50-100$ a day (and with fable 5.1 i could burn 200$ easily). Whereas i have now been using a claude code subscription for 2 weeks using 5.5 at all times and have never hit a limit. I often run 6+ agent sessions at once.
I do think its important long term to not be reliant on these companies as you don't have control over the system prompts, the thinking tokens, and once the subsidization stops or the company is public they will be required to start making money and thus raise prices.
But models may get more intelligent and cheaper once that time comes so it may be a non issue.
I dont think itll be an issue. Opus 5.5 now is way more than enough for me and open weight models will reach that level by the time subsidization stops
It's enough for you now, but I feel like part of the mythology of our future is that we'll be continued to be employed because we'll be working on more complex problems, with smarter LLMs at our side.
> Yea if i use opus 5.5 in api through openrouter and pi agent harness I will easily burn 50-100$ a day (and with fable 5.1 i could burn 200$ easily).
Checked yesterday, for that day alone I had used $168 worth on my $20 subscription in Claude Code. I still had plenty of weekly use left. Seems like subscriptions are discounted at a 1:10 rate?
See https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-subscription...
100%
I use a personal Claude account for personal projects and can let rabl run for an hour and barely make a dent into my usage
On the enterprise I have to be a lot more careful or I can burn through 2k in a week
The excuse they give is the guarantees you get with enterprise plans that they won’t look at your data
What's rabl?
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