Developer logs 225B Claude Code tokens in 30 days
10/18/2026 — 10/18, 09:17·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- A developer analyzed his busiest 30 days of Claude Code usage from September 15 to October 14, totaling 225.1 billion tokens and 736,633 API…
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On October 18, 2026, a developer published a post on DEV Community tallying his own Claude Code usage. The count covered his busiest 30 days, from September 15 to October 14, and came to 225.1 billion tokens across 736,633 API responses. Opus models handled 94% of those responses. He described his rule for coding agents as planning with the expensive model and executing with cheaper ones.
The same tally turned up something he had not noticed: during two of those weeks, most of his subagents never named a model, so they inherited Opus from their parent session. By his account, the setup was just him with a Mac, a home PC, and on a heavy day ten or more agents running at the same time. The post does not say what the usage cost, what the work involved, or whether other users would see the same pattern.
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Latest turnA developer tallied his busiest 30 days of Claude Code use, from September 15 to October 14: 225.1 billion tokens across 736,633 API responses, with Opus models handling 94% of them. In two of those weeks most subagents never named a model and silently inherited Opus from their parent session, which he hadn't noticed.
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A developer tallied his busiest 30 days of Claude Code use, from September 15 to October 14: 225.1 billion tokens across 736,633 API responses, with Opus models handling 94% of them. In two of those weeks most subagents never named a model and silently inherited Opus from their parent session, which he hadn't noticed.
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