At my company, most devs are under $1500 a month as well.

I’ve heard of a few cases of devs racking up bills fast, but it has typically been due to inefficient context usage. Like they just have one super long session with Opus 1M and are getting killed with input token costs and cache misses.

With careful context management and some thought into good approaches to problems, I have personally only rarely even hit $1k in regular use.