Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them
Hacker News (AI keywords)·yesterday·Business
The author uses a Claude Code coding experiment to estimate the API-equivalent cost of serious LLM coding.
They argue simple chats are cheap, but complex reasoning and multi-file coding can burn large amounts of visible and hidden tokens.
The piece is skeptical and estimate-driven, concluding that current $100/month plans may be heavily subsidized and economically fragile.
