No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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I'm fairly confident the Forbes sources are confusing retail API prices with actual compute costs. Anthropic's current API pricing for Opus 4. 6 is $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The Qwen 3. 5 397B model on OpenRouter (via Alibaba Cloud) costs $0. 39 per million input tokens and $2. 34 per million output tokens.

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