$20 for Claude on my personal email - fully reimbursed by my company.
Personal use is much greater than use for company purposes.
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#22$0. but I use at least $8,000 worth of monthly tokens.
I used to have: $200 Claude-max $10 github copilot $20 chatgpt $20 Cursor
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then, I spent roughly $5000 in tokens for a project which turned out to be a dud. Figured, inference wasn't going anywhere as its now 80% of my day. So, I built a 4x DGX Spark cluster and put GLM5.2 on it. Then put a few qwen models for vision and embedding purposes on my original DGX Spark and completely went local. Tron, my Hermes agent, uses agent storming to orchestrate openCode agents and hermes subagents to handle most of my daily tasks.
For fun, I reworked a public Github vLLM Dashboard to track my usage and cloud cost avoided. original dashboard was by github.com/niklasfrick but I extended it. github.com/Wpnx330/spark-dashboard
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For my day job I spend about $1000 + $20 a month in cursor costs.
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#23$0. Spent tons on hardware. Time is money and FOMO is a waste of money.
Can you share details on the build?
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#24$20 cursor pro plan only, grok 4.6 is good enough and cheap
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#25$10 for Kagi, which I had before AI was a thing, so it’s not strictly AI spend.
At work, I have no life. I don’t have visibility into the cost.
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#26$0. but I use at least $8,000 worth of monthly tokens. I used to have: $200 Claude-max $10 github copilot $20 chatgpt $20 Cursor --- then, I spent roughly $5000 in tokens for a project which turned out to be a dud. Figured, inference wasn't going anywhere as its now 80% of my day. So, I built a 4x DGX Spark cluster and put GLM5.2 on it. Then put a few qwen models for vision and embedding purposes on my original DGX S…
How much did it cost to put together 4x DGX Spark cluster?
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#27I have subscriptions for ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro, so about $40/month. I use them for coding mostly, switching between them frequently and heavily. On the occasional times I run out of tokens I'll go outside and take a walk or spend time with family.
Been doing it this way for ~the last 6 months or so.
I do also use the API's for GPT and Gemini for some side projects, but the spend there is highly variable. It rarely exceeds $100 in a given month.
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#30around 6.13 USD / month