As long as Anthropic offers better solutions for programming than the rest, they can charge whatever they want. I'll never understand the people who claim that they are leaving Claude for other services. They just can't be building anything complicated. I've tried everything out there multiple times, and nothing comes close to claude More on reddit.com

Continue is a geat extension! You are correct in your assumption, total input and output tokens is what it comes down to in the end. But if you are reaching 3 usd per message, then maybe you should consider creating a new chat more often. I usually try to divide a task in parts and have one chat per task. It can be tedious, because you will have to add all the relevant context again, but you will both get better responses and save money :) Do you currently have one big conversation in one chat? More on reddit.com

I like that Claude is more conversational now. I don’t always follow up with its questions but they do help guide my next prompt which I find unique among LLMs at the moment. More on reddit.com

Curent Anthropic Pricing: Model Name | Release Date | Input Price (m/tok) | Output Price (m/tok) | Haiku 3 | 20240307 | $0.25 | $1.25 | Sonnet 3/3.5 | 20240229 | $3.00 | $15.00 | Opus 3 | 20240229 | $15.00 | $75.00 You are correct, but bear in mind, during a chat OUTPUT tokens become INPUT tokens at the next turn (you send your previous OUTPUT as the INPUT). Here is an estimate of words to tokens: Text Type | Words | Tokens | Ratio | Simple English | 100 | 75 | 1.33:1 | Technical Documentation | 100 | 85 | 1.18:1 | Twitter-style with hashtags | 100 | 110 | 0.91:1 | Legal Jargon | 100 | 80 | 1.25:1 You can limit OUTPUT tokens at the API level for cost control if you need. Yes, Opus is 60 times the cost of Haiku. More on reddit.com