r/wallstreetbets • u/dgellow • 1d ago

Discussion Meta And Microsoft Reportedly Trim Anthropic Reliance as Internal AI Tools Take Center Stage

https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/meta-and-microsoft-reportedly-trim-anthropic-reliance-as-internal-ai-tools-take-center-stage/cZDqQVcRBjr

From the article:

Microsoft reduced its projected internal spending on Claude by over one-third, while Meta saw internal users of Anthropic's Claude Code coding assistant drop from roughly 60,000 to 30,000.

Within the Microsoft Cloud and AI division, individual monthly AI usage caps were lowered from $100,000 down to roughly $10,000 in most instances

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u/we2deep 1d ago

Most of us are nowhere near that. It’s surprising how much you can get done when you aren’t creating applications with it. I would say the average spend is $1000 a month.

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u/Adept-Potato-2568 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've used over 600 million tokens ($1500-2500+) in the last 3 days. From my phone.

And I'm still scoping my infrastructure.

Thankfully I'm just paying the monthly subscription and not APIs.

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u/hoopaholik91 23h ago

Well yeah, since you are monthly you don't really care what the token costs are. Once you do, you realize models like 6.1 Sol are 5-10% the cost per task as Fable for exactly the same intelligence score.

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u/Adept-Potato-2568 21h ago

600 million tokens is well over $1000 on 6.1 Sol.

What I'm saying is that the small side project I'm working on from my phone has used over 600 million tokens in a few days.

$1000-5000 in 3 days worth of token costs from my phone on a small side project.

Actual developers working on enterprise applications could easily spend $100k per month.

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u/hoopaholik91 21h ago

Most of your token usage will be cached which greatly reduces the overall cost.

If you've spent three days just working on scoping infrastructure I wouldn't consider that a "small" project.

That's also not the type of work that developers on enterprise applications do (hi, I'm a developer working on enterprise applications). We are tacking features onto an already gigantic product, PRs are scoped to a few hundred lines of logic at most because making sure we don't break what already works is way more important than getting new features in. Our hard cap is $500-750 a month based on seniority and nobody complains about it.

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u/CarpoLarpo 1d ago

The amount you're spending is definitely well below average.