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For a reference point, it says my max session limit in the past was ~337,492 tokens and I have the Max20 plan and 99% use Opus.

My total tokens used since I started using Claude Code on May 27th was 1,374,439,311 worth around $3397.34.

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I'm around ~2100 dollars equivalent on Max20 plan.

Do they have huge margins on API or are they just losing money? I use it everyday but I don't feel like I'm abusing it or anything

I've been wondering this too. They said on a podcast that the average usage is around $6 a day in credits but I really question that. If that's the case though and they do have a lot of Pro and higher tier subscribers that might be making up the difference.

Interesting, do you recall which podcast this was on?

yes the latent space podcast I believe

Latent Space.

"Claude Code is also the most direct way to consume Sonnet for coding, rather than going through all the hidden prompting and optimization than the other products do. You will feel that right away, as the average spend per user is $6/day on Claude Code compared to $20/mo for Cursor, for example. Apparently, there are some engineers inside of Anthropic that have spent >$1,000 in one day!"

Link: [https://www.latent.space/p/claude-code](https://www.latent.space/p/claude-code)

Huge margins on API lol, there's a reason the guys from deepseek told everyone that its bullshit that the big boys aren't making money, research is expensive but the inference isn't especially with the comments that even Sam Altman mentioned regarding pricing per response for the chat clients.

Exactly, was just calculating pricing yesterday, it doesn't make sense what they are doing. Straight up bs.

1. Don’t you hit rate limits on Opus? Don’t you find it slow compared to sonnet?

I have not ever actually hit the rate limit as far as I'm aware. I have gotten the "approaching Opus usage limit" a couple times but have not hit it.

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