They said in the article that this kid was making new accounts whenever he would hit the “monthly max” on his old accounts, implying that the subscription still only gets you a certain amount of tokens. I dunno personally because I’ve never used this stuff.
I am very confused. $9,000 in API costs, but also Claude Max subscription? Shouldn’t it be $100-200/mo?
I had thought its either/or, either you pay per token, or a fixed subscription.
The article says something about making new accounts when they ran out of tokens or whatever.
I have no idea how much usage $200/month gets but it sounds like they burned through it, the paid another $200.
They said in the article that this kid was making new accounts whenever he would hit the “monthly max” on his old accounts, implying that the subscription still only gets you a certain amount of tokens. I dunno personally because I’ve never used this stuff.
I think the number is just what it would have cost in pure AI tokens if they weren’t using the subscription.
That’s what I assumed as well, like $1 million in drugs on the street about $3.50 to produce.