Ask HN: How much are you spending monthly to use AI?

1 points by Dotnaught 326 days ago | 5 comments

AI billing is highly variable. What are you paying and what steps do you take to optimize costs? And has the cost proven to be worth it?

stray 326 days ago |

A few hundred. I'm not exactly sure. Soon, I will probably only be using the $200 tier of Claude Code. I had just canceled my Gemini Ultra when they finally released a terminal client, though, so I'm on the fence.

Dell3420 326 days ago | |

is 200 USD Claude code really-really good one?

stray 325 days ago | | |

I think so. Even though I use it quite heavily, I keep running out of capacity on the $100 plan. And every day, I run out of Opus capacity on the $100 plan.

yousseftarhri 326 days ago |

0 dollar, i only use free services. Im still a student hahahahahah

Dell3420 326 days ago | |

I'm the same, but I use any free Agentic service daily for work.

It's useful for something that I need to do fast. We can buy knowledge nowdays.