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Re:Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for ever... by LiamPowell on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:25AM (#48435168)
The assumptions are so much worse than that:

> Methodology & assumptions: No caching

This is absolutely absurd. Claude code is of course using the cache (and this can be verified by looking at the traffic). It would be an incredibly stupid design to resend the whole input without a cache for every input, every tool use, etc..

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Re:Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for ever... by gctwnl on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:46AM (#48435366)
The no-caching is explained in the linked conversation. The numbers are from actual use.
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Re:Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for ever... by gctwnl on Thursday June 11, 2026 @06:00AM (#48488332)
By the way, there is caching (cache TTL is hort but during sessions it is active). E.g. Settings Status Config Usage Stats

  Session
  
  Total cost:            $15.59
  Total duration (API):  18m 3s
  Total duration (wall): 2h 13m 16s
  Total code changes:    232 lines added, 80 lines removed
  Usage by model:
       claude-opus-4-6:  1.5k input, 41.8k output, 26.4m cache read, 212.6k cache write ($15.59)
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