Honest, longform posts on Anthropic Claude pricing, Claude Code cost, BYOK proxy tradeoffs, and the infrastructure that makes a 20×-cheaper Claude bill possible. Written by the team building aiusage.
Practical, tested ways to cut your Anthropic Claude API bill — batching, caching, model selection, prompt engineering, and infrastructure tricks that actually move the number.
Read →We ran Claude Code for a full month across a real codebase. Line-by-line math on tokens, model splits, agent loops, and where the money actually goes.
Read →Three BYOK AI proxies, three different jobs. Honest side-by-side of aiusage (savings), Helicone (observability), and Portkey (routing). Which one to pick for which problem.
Read →Everything that costs money when you call the Anthropic Claude API in 2026 — per-model token rates, tool use, vision, PDFs, caching, batch, and the hidden multipliers nobody explains up front.
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