No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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Post by jnord » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 11:22 PM UTC

No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user
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Post by functionmouse » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 11:45 PM UTC

Was anyone under the impression that it does? Serious question. I've never heard that, personally.

Re: No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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Post by dimgl » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 3:59 AM UTC

functionmouse wrote: post #2

Was anyone under the impression that it does? Serious question. I've never heard that, personally.

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Post by z3ugma » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 4:08 AM UTC

This is such a well-written essay. Every line revealed the answer to the immediate question I had just thought of

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Post by gmerc » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 4:19 AM UTC

Nobody gets RSI typing “iterate until tests pass”

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Post by brianjeong » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 4:42 AM UTC

These margins are far greater than the ones Dario has indicated during many of his recent podcasts appearances.

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Post by crazygringo » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 4:42 AM UTC

functionmouse wrote: post #2

Was anyone under the impression that it does? Serious question. I've never heard that, personally.

I mean, the very first paragraph of TFA is describing who is under that impression. Literally the first sentence:

> My LinkedIn and Twitter feeds are full of screenshots from the recent Forbes article on Cursor claiming that Anthropic's $200/month Claude Code Max plan can consume $5,000 in compute.

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Post by ymaws » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 4:53 AM UTC

How confident are you in the opus 4.6 model size? I've always assumed it was a beefier model with more active params that Qwen397B (17B active on the forward pass)

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Post by beepbooptheory » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 4:57 AM UTC

Ok but so it does cost Cursor $5k per power-Cursor user?? Still seems pretty rough..

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Post by codemog » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 4:57 AM UTC

ymaws wrote: post #8

How confident are you in the opus 4.6 model size? I've always assumed it was a beefier model with more active params that Qwen397B (17B active on the forward pass)

Also curious if any experts can weigh in on this. I would guess in the 1 trillion to 2 trillion range.