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An AI research scientist using all three Claude tiersāHaiku, Sonnet, and Opusāhas fundamentally different token economics than a software engineer. We break down a month of theoretical, empirical, and literature-review research workloads against Anthropic's official Claude API pricing, and compare directly to the engineer's bill.
How much does it actually cost to run an AI coding agent as your daily driver? We break down a month of realistic engineer usageācoding, research, writing, and agentic browser/QA tasksāinto concrete token estimates and calculate the bill against Anthropic's official Claude API pricing for Haiku 4.5 and Opus 4.6.
A comparative pricing analysis of major AI providers for high-volume users generating 10M-30M tokens daily. Covers per-token API pricing, subscription plans, batch discounts, caching strategies, and cost-effective approaches.