Spend report · @unhinged-opusenjoyer-17

$2,061/mo burn

ranked against 38 devs · median $473/mo

4.4×
Burns 4.4× the median dev — $2,061/mo vs $473. Top 13% of the board.
88%
88% of tokens re-read context already loaded; only 0.29% was newly written code. Paying to reload, not to create.
62%
Opus drives 62% of the bill — the single biggest cost lever on this profile.
Where this landspercentile vs cohort · ◆ median
Monthly spend$2,06187th pctl
Tokens that were actual code0.29%3rd pctl
Spent re-reading context88%34th pctl
Opus reliance62%55th pctl
Burn per active day$6987th pctl
Model mixby cost
Opus 61.7%Everything else 38.3%
Cut the burncomputed from these numbers
Route routine work to Sonnet — saves ~$305/mo
Keep Opus for architecture and hard debugging; /model sonnet for edits, tests, boilerplate.
Cut context re-reads — saves ~$247/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 you
$5k+ 2
$ npx tokenrot
Out-burns 87% of developers. See where you land.

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