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Eric Siu cut his monthly AI spending from $7,500 to nearly zero by switching to Claude Max for $200/month, using OpenAI as backup, and adding ChatGPT 5.5 and API fallbacks. He walks through his new model hierarchy and cost monitoring approach.
Eric Siu cut his monthly AI spending from $7,500 to nearly zero by switching to Claude Max for $200/month, using OpenAI as backup, and adding ChatGPT 5.5 and API fallbacks. He walks through his new model hierarchy and cost monitoring approach.
Here's how I decreased basically my $7,500 a month AI token spend to zero, or it's trending towards zero. So you can see this month to date so far, $6,700, right? You can see the graphs over here. It's like going up to like $400 a day or whatever. So anyway, my point is you can see the graph starting to go down. All I did, Neil, was I changed my model hierarchy. And so what I mean by that is I paid $200 a month for Claude Max, and then OpenAI OAuth is number 2. ChatGPT 5.5 is amazing. And then the last one is a fallback to the API. So you do need to continue to monitor your costs.
