Spend report · @unhinged-burnmaxxer-98

$261/mo burn

ranked against 38 devs · median $473/mo

45%
Runs 45% under the median$261/mo vs $473. Quietly efficient.
90%
90% of tokens re-read context already loaded; only 2% 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 1.55× the personal norm — the signature of a runaway loop or caching bug.
Where this landspercentile vs cohort · ◆ median
Monthly spend$26137th pctl
Tokens that were actual code2%53rd pctl
Spent re-reading context90%58th pctl
Opus reliance88%74th pctl
Burn per active day$934th pctl
Model mixby cost
Opus 88.4%Everything else 11.6%
Cut the burncomputed from these numbers
Route routine work to Sonnet — saves ~$55/mo
Keep Opus for architecture and hard debugging; /model sonnet for edits, tests, boilerplate.
Cut context re-reads — saves ~$31/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 63% of developers. See where you land.

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