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YesClaude Code · 9 Mar 2026

It costs about $1 per PR that gets merged-- how much does it cost to have a software engineer do that PR?

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$1 per PR that gets merged

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Helped: Low cost per merged PR compared to human labor.

We've been experimenting with claude code handling jira tickets and opening PR -- we're starting with Opus. It costs about $1 per PR that gets merged-- how much does it cost to have a software engineer do that PR? That's your price sensitivity. …