Your Claude Code Bill Quietly Got 5x Worse — And They Were Tracking You Too
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This has been a rough week for Anthropic's developer trust. The Invisible Price Hike Developer Vincent Schmalbach published detailed logs showing Claude Code's effective cost increased approximately 5x — without any pricing change announcement. His numbers are hard to argue with: Previous heavy weeks : ~8.9M and ~8.5M visible Opus tokens Current week : ~1.4M visible Opus tokens Same subscription. Same machine. Same workflow. That's roughly 83% fewer tokens for the same money. His broader metric…
1Key Takeaways
- This has been a rough week for Anthropic's developer trust.
- The Invisible Price Hike Developer Vincent Schmalbach published detailed logs showing Claude Code's effective cost increased approximately 5x — without any pricing change announcement.
- His numbers are hard to argue with: Previous heavy weeks : ~8.9M and ~8.5M visible Opus tokens Current week : ~1.4M visible Opus tokens Same subscription.
- That's roughly 83% fewer tokens for the same money.
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that this has been a rough week for Anthropic's developer trust.
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