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$402 on one ticket: cost per turn in headless Claude Code
Community description: One ticket reached $402 over nine headless Claude Code runs and nothing in the app said so. The catch when you fix that: total_cost_usd is cumulative
Dev.to | Sep 28, 2026 | Panth Patel
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Putting the cost on every turn has one catch: Claude Code's total_cost_usd is cumulative across --resume. The orchestrator (workspaces/lib/orch. mjs, about 600 lines, zero dependencies) runs one headless Claude Code session per ticket. Read naively, that line says run 8 cost $392. 83.
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