No more token anxiety

Here's my openrouter token usage in a specific day: (It's a flex, I know)


Approximately 40M ( < 5$) tokens in 4 hours. More than the weekly limit in Claude Max X20 no matter which model you use.

Estimated Weekly Token Limit (Claude Max 20x - 200$ monthly subscription)
  • Claude Opus: ~1.5 Million to 2.5 Million total tokens per week
  • Claude Sonnet: ~3 Million to 5 Million total tokens per week
  • Claude Haiku: ~12 Million to 20 Million+ total tokens per week

For me, that's a good enough justification to move from claude to the carefree world of open router and opencode. 

Using opencode + openrouter I get:

- Better latency.

- Extremely lower price.

- No monthly subscription (pay as you go)

- No token anxiety! I can burn 100M tokens in one hour if I want to.



Wanna join the token maxing party, there you go:
https://openrouter.ai/docs/cookbook/coding-agents/opencode-integration

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