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I suspect it's even worse than that.
A Claude Max subscription is $200 a month, which is roughly $7 a day. I'm forced to use Claude Code at work, and I frequently run the /usage command out of morbid curiosity to see how many tokens in wasting. I'm not exactly a power user, but even with my bare-minimum usage I typically burn about $50 of tokens per day โ so roughly 7 times that $7 a day figure.
And that's just based on Anthropic's official per-token pricing, which itself is almost certainly subsidized... so it's likely I'm costing them something closer to $20-$30 for every $1 of revenue. And again, I'm only using it for the bare minimum. I know people with much higher usage than me.