Claude Code Costs, Act III — The ecosystem of options for spending less

<p>In my previous post, "<a href="https://zenn.dev/bokuwalily/articles/hook-script-macos-traps" rel="noopener noreferrer">Writing hook scripts without stepping on macOS

<p>AI coding assistants are useful. They're also expensive if you're not paying attention. I was spending $120/month before I started tracking. Now I spend under $50 for the same

<p>This post from Anthropic is causing a lot of angst among its most ardent users. While it is disguised as a credit, it really is them tightening API token limits (aka charging

<p>You have 200,000 tokens to work with—but most people are still copy-pasting text like they're fighting a 4K limit that doesn't exist anymore.</p> <p>I watched a senior

<p>GPT-5.4 shipped on March 5. Seven weeks later, on April 23, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 — and the pace alone tells you something about where this race is headed. This isn't

<p>Anthropic shipped Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026. Same $5/$25 pricing as 4.6. Same 1M context. Same 128K output ceiling. Different model entirely when you put it in an agentic

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wxfdt9/qwen38_27b_1_x_r9700_262k_context_half_a_million/"> <img alt="Qwen3.8 27B | 1 x R9700: 262K context,

<p>The price page hasn't moved. Five dollars per million input. Twenty-five per million output. Identical to Opus 4.6.</p> <p>Run the same Claude Code call on both, though, and