alt Hacker NewsIn industry, the cost is more than 100/mo for engineers. With increased adoption and what I know now, I expect full time devs to rack up $500-$2000 usage bills if they're going full parallel agentic dev. Personal usage for projects and non-production software is not a benchmark IMO
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adastra22 • yesterday at 7:34 PM
I routinely use $4k to $5k worth of tokens a month on my $200/mo Max subscription. I don't even code every day.
You can use a Max subscription for work, btw.
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I work with a lot of full-time devs, and it is very hard to go beyond the $200 max plan. If you use API credits, and I think the enterprise plan kind of forces you to do this, you can definitely incur this much, particularly if you're not using prompt caching and things like that.
But I and others in my company have very heavy usage. We only rarely, with parallel agentic processes, run out of the $200 a month plan.
And what do I mean by "hard"? I mean, it requires a lot of active thinking to think about how you can actively max it out. I'm sure there's some use cases where maybe it is not hard to do this, but in general, I find most devs can't even max out the $100 a month plan, because they haven't quite figured out how to leverage it to that degree yet.
(Again, if someone is using the API instead of subscription, I wouldn't be surprised to see $2,000 bills.)