https://loopandretry.github.io/tags/claude/ Recent content in Claude on Loop & Retry https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png Hugo en-us Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:00:00 -0400 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/what-drives-your-claude-bill/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:00:00 -0400 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/what-drives-your-claude-bill/ The per-token rate on Anthropic’s pricing page is real, but it’s the least useful number for predicting your actual invoice. Three multipliers move the bill far more than model choice does — a cache that silently misses, a transcript that grows quadratically with run length, and a best-of-N pattern that prepays for latency you may not need. Here’s the arithmetic on all three, combined, with real numbers.