$200 Subscription, $12,500 in Actual Tokens — The Subscription Is Alre

I Pay $200. I Use $12,500 in Tokens. AI Costs Crashed 850x … · Mar 9, 2026 Technology

Ben pays $200/month for Claude Max but burns roughly 500 million tokens a month — equivalent to $12,500 at API rates. AI providers priced subscriptions like a normal buffet, but developers are now taking entire restaurants' worth of food home. The OAuth crackdown from Anthropic and Google is the inevitable response.