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I pay for my tokens for my own projects, at least when the ones Google seems willing to keep throwing at me for free don't cut it. I'd think that's not too unco
by codebje 25d ago
I pay for my tokens for my own projects, at least when the ones Google seems willing to keep throwing at me for free don't cut it. I'd think that's not too uncommon, especially here where there's likely a high ratio of hobby coders (whether also professionals or otherwise).
- YetAnotherNick 25d agoI also pay but just the $20 plan and just for chats/lightweight personal site editing. I get unlimited token usage from my company. In my company the average claude token usage is something like $5k/month/employee. Most hobby coders don't spend anywhere close to it.
- arlcode 25d agoI strongly suspect most companies don't spend that much either. Unlimited tokens aka unlimited cost is something that not every use case needs.
- YetAnotherNick 25d agoI think most good engineering companies are spending >$1000/employee/month. Subscription users spend $100-200.
- queenkjuul 24d agoFree tier Gemini is good enough for my personal projects and hopefully a local model can replace it before i ever personally pay for a single token from anyone. Work can pay a Claude sub. At home i see no need
- jayGlow 24d agolocal models are getting pretty close. they still require some serious hardware to run at a reasonable rate but they're about smart enough to be useful.
- queenkjuul 23d agoYeah i just don't have the hardware to run them at a reasonable rate and am not ready to invest that much at today's prices. My tinkering with DeepSeek last year was promising but the minutes-per-response made it unusable.