Spend report · @zen-cachegoblin-30
$5,372/mo burn
ranked against 38 devs · median $473/mo
11.4×
Burns 11.4× the median dev — $5,372/mo vs $473. Top 5% of the board.
88%
88% of tokens re-read context already loaded; only 0.44% was newly written code. Paying to reload, not to create.
71%
Opus drives 71% of the bill — the single biggest cost lever on this profile.
Where this landspercentile vs cohort · ◆ median
Monthly spend$5,37295th pctl
Tokens that were actual code0.44%13th pctl
Spent re-reading context88%39th pctl
Opus reliance71%61st pctl
Burn per active day$17995th pctl
Model mixby cost
Opus 71.3%Everything else 28.7%
Cut the burncomputed from these numbers
Route routine work to Sonnet — saves ~$919/mo
Keep Opus for architecture and hard debugging; /model sonnet for edits, tests, boilerplate.
Cut context re-reads — saves ~$645/mo
/compact at natural breakpoints, /clear between tasks, trim CLAUDE.md — every turn re-reads it.
Cohort distributionprojected / month
<$100
5
$100–300
11
$300–600
7
$600–1k
5
$1k–2k
5
$2k–5k
3
$5k+
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Out-burns 95% of developers. See where you land.