Sure that can happen but it hasn’t been my experience. I just spent a whole day using it for some pretty hefty refactors, many rounds of back-and-forths, thousands of lines of code changes, reviews, investigations, many subagents running parallel tasks, the works. Total cost $0.95, altogether.

I had attempted this with Opus 4.6 in the past and it burned through the $10 budget I’d given it before it returned from my initial prompt.

Even if it’s heavily discounted, it would still have cost me single digits for a complete solution vs double-digits for exactly nothing.