$2,500/Month AI Budget: Developer Burns 62M Opus 4.7 Tokens in 24 Hours
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A post on r/ClaudeAI (392 upvotes, 104 comments) details a developer spending $2,500/month on AI tools whose friend burned through 62 million Opus 4.7 tokens in a single 24-hour session. The discussion reveals the emerging cost reality of heavy agentic coding workflows — at Opus 4.7's pricing, 62M tokens in a day represents extreme but increasingly common power-user behavior. Comments debate whether this spend is justifiable for professional development velocity versus running local models.