Claude Max Plan Economics Exposed: User Tracks $565 in API Costs Over 7 Days on $100/Month Plan
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A Claude Max subscriber tracked actual API costs across 58 Opus sessions over one week: $565 total, $9.75 per session, $0.88 per prompt. The 161↑, 110-comment r/ClaudeAI post provides the clearest public data on Anthropic's per-user economics, showing the company is losing ~$465/month on power users. The community connected this to Anthropic's pattern of tightening rate limits — the economic math makes it obvious why. At this burn rate, Anthropic needs roughly 5.7 light users per power user to break even on Max subscriptions.