[mbesto]

Honestly, the costs are so minimal and vary wildly relative to the cost of a developer that it's frankly not worth the discussion...yet. The reality is the standard deviation of cost is going to oscillate until there is a common agreed upon way to use these tools.

[lysace]

Yes, but the lack of clear pricing probably makes people think it's more expensive than it actually is. (It did so to me.)

There is nothing quantifiable here: https://claude.com/pricing

Pro: "Everything in Free, plus: More usage"

Max: "Choose 5x or 20x more usage than Pro"

Wow, 5x or 20x more of "more". That's some masterful communication right there.

[bsder]

> Honestly, the costs are so minimal and vary wildly relative to the cost of a developer that it's frankly not worth the discussion...yet

Is it? Sure, the chatbot style maxes at $200/month. I consider that ... not unreasonable ... for a professional tool. It doesn't make me happy, but it's not horrific.

The article, however, explicitly pans the chatbot style and is extolling the API style being accessed constantly by agents, and that has no upper bound. Roughly $10-ish per Megatokens. $10-ish per 1K web searches. etc.

This doesn't sound "minimal" to me. This sounds like every single "task" I kick off is $10. And it can kick those tasks and costs off very quickly in an automated fashion. It doesn't take many of those tasks before I'm paying more than an actual full developer.

Ref: https://claude.com/pricing#api