Spend report · @zen-compactor-47

$196/mo burn

ranked against 38 devs · median $473/mo

59%
Runs 59% under the median$196/mo vs $473. Quietly efficient.
82%
82% of tokens re-read context already loaded; only 2.3% was newly written code. Paying to reload, not to create.
95%
Opus drives 95% of the bill — the single biggest cost lever on this profile.
Where this landspercentile vs cohort · ◆ median
Monthly spend$19632nd pctl
Tokens that were actual code2.3%61st pctl
Spent re-reading context82%1st pctl
Opus reliance95%89th pctl
Burn per active day$729th pctl
Model mixby cost
Opus 94.8%Everything else 5.2%
Cut the burncomputed from these numbers
Route routine work to Sonnet — saves ~$45/mo
Keep Opus for architecture and hard debugging; /model sonnet for edits, tests, boilerplate.
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 68% of developers. See where you land.

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