Cursor Pro $20/month
Mostly for side projects. I use GPT/Opus for planning, while Auto handles the implementation and the majority of the work.
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#32$0. Spent tons on hardware. Time is money and FOMO is a waste of money.
Can you share details on the build?
AMD 395+ w/128Gb personal use; work bought two older 48GB cards, and another framework 395+; all before the memory cartel. The my work machine was upgraded with blackwell 72gb.
All in, thats about 40k.
The amds act as regular pcs so not single purpose. The 2x 48gb will drive some RAG and backup IT admin. The 72gb will develop software.
The 395+ can run the 3.5 qwen A10B model at reasonable rates so using deer flow it can create arbitrary research reports and create green field projects like a cross browser extension scaffold.
Everytging im working on is in a niche that can benefit from custom software but cant invest in it. Its mostly about self resiliency rather than privacy.
If something happens to me, the AI can train anyone on the uses, so we are solving BUS factors rather than anything else.
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#33I spend $300 per month on Claude's Pro subscription (20x tier), split with my cousin as we work as duo. It's pretty good and we never had to switch to another AI since we mostly code and Claude is pretty much the cream of the crop right now.
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#34I burn through about 3–4 Kiro Power refills per month, so roughly $600–800/month. Currently covered by AWS startup credits, though.
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#35Just $20 a month to Anthropic. I've run into having to step away from the AI projects for a bit here and there due to burning the 5-hour window in 3 hours a handful of times. But never ran out of the weekly usage with days to go.
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#36$40-60, not counting day job stuff.
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#37I used to spend 80$ per month on Claude pro while building my website + extension. However, once i launched the website and my extension i cancelled. I just feel i get what i need in the free plans of chatgpt, Gemini, and Claude.
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#38I spend $20 for Claude, $10 for Github Copilot (thinking about cancelling because I'm using pi with openrouter api a lot lately), ~$30 for openrouter api.
Currently, I'm looking at Opencode Go for Chinese models. Can anyone compare Opencode Go and Openrouter if my use case is coding with K3 and GLM?
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#39Previously $0 using local models, then $10/mo with GitHub Copilot, cancelled that when it became a bad deal, now $10/mo with OpenCode Go. I haven't seen a better deal than OpenCode Go yet. You get more in token spend than with using providers directly due to some volume discounts they pool.
Great. I'm debating the exact decision. Will quickly follow your path now. Github -> Opencode Go
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you share details on the build?
AMD 395+ w/128Gb personal use; work bought two older 48GB cards, and another framework 395+; all before the memory cartel. The my work machine was upgraded with blackwell 72gb. All in, thats about 40k. The amds act as regular pcs so not single purpose. The 2x 48gb will drive some RAG and backup IT admin. The 72gb will develop software. The 395+ can run the 3.5 qwen A10B model at reasonable rates so using deer flow it…
Nice! I haven't been able to convince work to buy inference hardware. would love to get my hands on a 72gb card. Qwen3.8-27b just dropped and it would scream on a PRO6000.