You will start seriously worrying about coding AI bills within 6 months
Nope.
More open models ship everyday and are 80% cheaper for similar and sometimes better performance, depending on the task.
You can use Qwen-3 Coder (a 480 billion parameter model with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts)) for $0.302/M input tokens
$0.302/M output tokens via openrouter.
Claude 4 Sonnet is $3/M input tokens and $15/M output tokens.
Several utilities will let you use Claude Code to use these models at will.
Where are you seeing those prices? Cheapest one I see (and it has horrible uptime/throughput numbers) is $0.40/$1.60, and it's more like $2/$2 on average.
Nope.
More open models ship everyday and are 80% cheaper for similar and sometimes better performance, depending on the task.
You can use Qwen-3 Coder (a 480 billion parameter model with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts)) for $0.302/M input tokens $0.302/M output tokens via openrouter.
Claude 4 Sonnet is $3/M input tokens and $15/M output tokens.
Several utilities will let you use Claude Code to use these models at will.