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NoClaude · 13 May 2026

My usage, which I was on the verge of increasing via a second Max plan, would cost 3 figures per day , rather than per month

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3 figures per day

In the thread “Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: High daily cost for automation and headless tasks.

Lots and lots of automation, along with long-running multi-instance headless tasks. My usage, which I was on the verge of increasing via a second Max plan, would cost 3 figures per day , rather than per month. I already know this because my initial tooling was prototyped against direct API usage, and that was the cost of my usage patterns. …