Eric Siu spent $12,000 on Anthropic before finding a workaround: rotating multiple OpenAI accounts to stretch his $200/month budget and cut costs by 90%. He warns the trick only works if most people don't know about it.
How many of you are spending a lot of money on tokens at your companies right now? Because we're paying for this intelligence, it's unreasonable for us to not pay for this. My token costs got up to $12,000 with Anthropic spend, right? And I'm like, man, I'm having fun. And sure, I can argue that I'm getting ROI, but that's still crazy to me. So if you want to drive your token cost a lot cheaper, because right now I'm paying for Claude, so I paid $200 a month, and then I started buying more and more OpenAI accounts. And so once I run out on the first one, guess what? I switched to the other one, $200 a month. And I'm just going to keep doing this $200 a month until everyone starts abusing this. And then the party's over. So maybe, maybe I shouldn't have told you guys this, but I figure someone's gonna do it, so I might as well just tell you. But you're welcome. You have gotten an ROI from this conference already.
