Anthropic quietly doubles its estimate for how much engineers can expect to spend on Claude Code tokens

Some Claude users expressed outrage last week when it appeared Claude Code would not be available to the lowest tier of subscribers. Bloomberg/Getty Images Anthropic more than doubled its estimate of what an average developer will spend on tokens "per active day." Now, Anthropic estimates the average cost per developer per day is around $13. Earlier this month, the AI startup said it would be $6 per developer per day. Yesterday's Claude Code costs are not today's. More specifically, sometim...