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YesClaude · 31 Oct 2026

I managed to reduce costs from ~$200 to ~$50 in a month, even when I started to use Claude for more tasks than I did before

surgical_fire on Hacker News

reduce costs from ~$200 to ~$50 in a month

In the thread “OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target”, replying to this comment

Helped: Aggressive session management and using different models for planning, coding, and review.

… With aggressive clean session management and some judicious compacting, I get Opus to plan, Haiku to code, Sonnet to review. I managed to reduce costs from ~$200 to ~$50 in a month, even when I started to use Claude for more tasks than I did before.