This has been a rough week for Anthropic's developer trust. The Invisible Price...
This has been a rough week for Anthropic's developer trust.
The Invisible Price Hike
Developer Vincent Schmalbach published detailed logs showing Claude Code's effective cost increased approximately 5x — without any pricing change announcement.
His numbers are hard to argue with:
Previous heavy weeks: ~8.9M and ~8.5M visible Opus tokens
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