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pu_pe • today at 4:28 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Is that how these figures are being calculated? Because if so, that's laughable. I always interpret those to mean that they are literally paying $200k/year to Anthropic, not ~$2k.


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TiredOfLife • today at 5:57 PM

Not only that. They simply multiply tokens used with API price per token, but ignore that about 90% of tokens are cached ones that are significantly cheaper.