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Before someone says "just ask Claude to rebuild it": it took 2.6 billion Claude tokens, about $2,650 at API rates

Last time I posted this, the top comments were all "Claude, make me one of these." Reasonable. Here's what it took the first time: 81 days, 2.6 billion Claude tokens, 574 million Codex tokens and 163 subagents. I was on the Claude and OpenAI subscriptions, so I paid the plans, not a token bill; at…

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  1. 2026-10-14 23:11 · r/ClaudeAI
    Before someone says "just ask Claude to rebuild it": it took 2.6 billion Claude tokens, about $2,650 at API rates

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