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Re:Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling by svachalek on Monday July 20, 2026 @02:00PM (#48982420)
I'd imagine it has to be immense. Most of the engineers I know are spending $200/day, let's say 20 workdays per month, $4000/mo. Whatever % of revenue it is, it's got to be close to 100% of profit.
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Re:Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling by hungryhobbit on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:35PM (#48984545)
Who is paying $200/day? My company has me on a $30/month plan (I assume they pay annually?). I use Claude constantly and only hit usage limits when I try to do 4+ projects at once.

I can't imagine why anyone would need almost 7x that.

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Re:Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling by pimeys on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:28PM (#48985109)
Depending on the harness, $200/session can be common. Thanks for harnesses like maki the cost is lower compared to OpenCode or Cursor.

But $200/day is very common in the business. The monthly plans are just a trial version of what's going to come for all of us. That's why I am very carefully looking into the open models today.

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Re:Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling by arrowleaf on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:58PM (#48984798)
If your company is a certain size or cares about ZDR, you need to be on an Enterprise plan which is API pricing. $300/day here on average.
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