Our company pays by token usage.

Claude opus 4.5 costs about 25$ per one million input tokens.

Well I manage to get to about 50 million input tokens per day regularly on the agent. Not everyday, but at least 7 per month. So I am alone cost the company about 2000$ extra on top of my salary.

Well they fixed it by implementing some great caching for the tokens and using sonnet instead of opus I can save some money too. Also gemini flash is much cheaper and similar performant. So you can fix it so you don't burn money on ai