alt Hacker NewsI think it’s lagging indicator. There were signs of saturation in the end of 2025. From 2025 to March 2026 average developer ai spent gone from $20/mo to at least $200. In my company it’s $1000-1500/mo to anthropic only.
In many cases this 20x+ increase over 3 mo.
This is going in other industries too. Claude cowork is just an example and beginning of the trend.
Show me any product that / company that charge you 20x and customers are happy , well its anthropic
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surgical_fire • today at 12:58 PM
Eh? Is the average developer paying 200$ a month?
I mean, I imagine some top% vibe coding bros paying 200$. I would require some serious evidence that the average developer pays for it.
I certainly wouldn't. It's moderately useful, but not 200$/mo useful.
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I dont know what world you/I are living in. I do ask claude to enumerate/explain concepts i am not familiar with. I never approached the free tier limit (is there one?). At work, we have a webpage which ia basically a chat to different models, sometimes i use it
Would I be paying 20€ to ask those questions? I dunno, i dont feel any particular need. Would I be paying 200€?! Are you insane hell no