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The amount of Anthropic's token usage of its own Claude models internally, converted at retail prices, already exceeds the company's total salary spending on employees.
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11/2/2026
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Valid until: 11/16/2026
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UnverifiedClaude Code's cost counter calculates all input tokens at the "uncached input price," while in the actual bill a large number of tokens are billed at the cache price, and since the two unit prices differ by dozens of times, the error is further amplified.67% similarVerifiedAnthropic Claude's pricing for cache hit tokens is approximately one-tenth of the regular input token price.67% similarUnverifiedThe profit model of token aggregation platforms is to charge a service fee of 5%–20% on top of the original model API call costs and obtain bulk purchasing prices through economies of scale.64% similar
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