It's what claude code's cli /cost command reported. Like I said I haven't really used this stuff much so a lot of it was reviewing what it was doing and thinking about how to prompt it to do what I wanted it to do. I'm generally pretty skeptical about this stuff but I'm an old fart and decided I should see what the kids are doing rather than yell at clouds and tell people to get off my yard. So far I am able to get it to mostly work acceptably for annoying maintenance tasks (adding docstrings, explain code, rough drafts of tests). Things that I just generally don't have time for. Having it explain my own code from a few years ago to jog my memory about how it works. That sort of thing.

Interestingly, it came up with some definitions of abbreviations and slightly different ways to do things using confidential APIs that have been sort of reverse engineered in public but are not fully understood. Which to me was the most interesting. The things it suggested related to that are very plausible and I was trying to decide if it was clever hallucinations or because it's being used/trained on code bases at that company or by others who have better access. So I spent a lot of time googling to see if it had found some publicly available info to confirm.

Anyway after I hit $5 I subscribed to pro to continue the playing but /cost won't tell you anything useful after switching to pro.

I also wanted to try Gemini clinto compare but I couldn't figure out how to actually give Google my money. Why is Google so impossible to use.