Spend report · @opus-pilled-tokensmith-42 · demo
$9,240/mo burn
ranked against 1,284 devs · median $3,808/mo
2.4×
Burns 2.4× the median dev — $9,240/mo vs $3,808. Top 8% of the board.
96%
96% of tokens re-read context already loaded; only 0.5% was newly written code. Paying to reload, not to create.
97%
Opus drives 97% of the bill — the single biggest cost lever on this profile.
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Last 3 days ran 1.6× the personal norm — the signature of a runaway loop or caching bug.
Where this landspercentile vs cohort · ◆ median
Monthly spend$9,24092nd pctl
Tokens that were actual code0.5%12th pctl
Spent re-reading context96%91st pctl
Opus reliance97%96th pctl
Burn per active day$30493rd pctl
Model mixby cost
Opus 97%Everything else 3%
Cut the burncomputed from these numbers
Route routine work to Sonnet — saves ~$2,151/mo
Keep Opus for architecture and hard debugging; /model sonnet for edits, tests, boilerplate.
Cut context re-reads — saves ~$1,109/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
34
$100–300
62
$300–600
100
$600–1k
58
$1k–2k
36
$2k–5k
20
$5k+
you
$ npx tokenrot
Out-burns 92% of developers. See where you land.