Spend report · @zen-burnmaxxer-86

$177/mo burn

ranked against 38 devs · median $473/mo

63%
Runs 63% under the median$177/mo vs $473. Quietly efficient.
87%
87% of tokens re-read context already loaded; only 1.1% was newly written code. Paying to reload, not to create.
88%
Opus drives 88% of the bill — the single biggest cost lever on this profile.
Last 3 days ran 2.27× the personal norm — the signature of a runaway loop or caching bug.
Where this landspercentile vs cohort · ◆ median
Monthly spend$17726th pctl
Tokens that were actual code1.1%26th pctl
Spent re-reading context87%29th pctl
Opus reliance88%71st pctl
Burn per active day$624th pctl
Model mixby cost
Opus 88.2%Everything else 11.8%
Cut the burncomputed from these numbers
Route routine work to Sonnet — saves ~$37/mo
Keep Opus for architecture and hard debugging; /model sonnet for edits, tests, boilerplate.
Cut context re-reads — saves ~$21/mo
/compact at natural breakpoints, /clear between tasks, trim CLAUDE.md — every turn re-reads it.
Audit the last 3 days for a runaway loop
A retrying agent quietly eats 10–100× a normal session.
Cohort distributionprojected / month
<$100 5
$100–300 you
$300–600 7
$600–1k 5
$1k–2k 5
$2k–5k 3
$5k+ 2
$ npx tokenrot
Leaner than 74% of developers. See where you land.

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