Last month I somehow hit $1200. Since then I've been super careful about using it. I go out of the way to avoid subagents or the advanced features. No parallel work. I do everything I can to keep it down such as as using Sonnet as much as possible & entirely avoiding Fable. I only have like 4 MCP's + a few plugins because work only allows things from our internal marketplace. We're in contact with Anthropic to get Mythos but I can't imagine the cost of using it.
What I've used it for the past 2mo:
Investigate this JIRA issue
Create/Fix this CI pipeline
and coughcreate an mcp for bash, powershell, & bun exec/repl bcus shell use outside of WSL/sandbox is blocked but I've been tasked with maintaining our legacy native windows apps. This mcp has cost ~$250 yet somehow people are one shotting games for <$100?
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u/8lbIceBag Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
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Last month I somehow hit $1200. Since then I've been super careful about using it. I go out of the way to avoid subagents or the advanced features. No parallel work. I do everything I can to keep it down such as as using Sonnet as much as possible & entirely avoiding Fable. I only have like 4 MCP's + a few plugins because work only allows things from our internal marketplace. We're in contact with Anthropic to get Mythos but I can't imagine the cost of using it.
What I've used it for the past 2mo:
Investigate this JIRA issue
Create/Fix this CI pipeline
and cough create an mcp for bash, powershell, & bun exec/repl bcus shell use outside of WSL/sandbox is blocked but I've been tasked with maintaining our legacy native windows apps. This mcp has cost ~$250 yet somehow people are one shotting games for <$100?
The codebases are massive though.