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points by rustyhancock 4 days ago | 0 comments

Really grateful the costs were included - just shy of 5K USD. Really out of morbid curiosity. And they estimate it was the equivalent of 250-400k for human work.

https://hypnotize.works/gdx-3ds/postmortem/cost.html

[–] grumbel 4 days ago

Just in case anybody get's scared by those numbers: A $20 Claude Pro subscription is worth around $1000 API tokens.

[–] refactor_master 4 days ago

So it’s like paying $20 for a gym subscription but if you had just stayed there 24/7 paying hourly rates the whole month it would’ve cost $1000.

Except, nobody does that. So that’s not a real number.

[–] jrmg 3 days ago

People regularly blow through all their Claude Pro tokens every week. It’s relatively easy to do.

[–] coffeesoda 3 days ago

I spent $600. $200 a month for the last 3 months. Used for other projects too but this blew my token usage quite often.