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I Calculated What My $200/Month AI Subscription Actually Produced. Here's the Math.

I Calculated What My $200/Month AI Subscription Actually Produced. Here's the Math.

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I pay $200/month for Claude Code Max. After 50 days, I wanted to know: is this rational? Not "is AI useful" — I know it's useful. The question is: what did $200 produce, and could I have bought that cheaper? I built a calculator to answer this. Not just for my setup — for anyone's AI subscription stack. AI Cost Reality → My 50-Day Numbers What happened Number Claude sessions 3,446 AI work hours 109 Git commits 458+ Tools shipped 8 Articles written 30+ Games shipped 5 Revenue generated $4.99 That last number is the uncomfortable one. $4.99 in revenue against $400 in AI costs over two months. The calculator doesn't hide this. It shows you the full picture. How the Calculator Works Select your active AI subscriptions: □ ChatGPT Plus $20/mo □ Claude Max $200/mo ✓ □ GitHub Copilot $19/mo □ Cursor Pro $20/mo □ Midjourney $30/mo ... (12 options + custom) Then it shows: Total monthly/annual spend Cost per session (from your cc-session-stats data) Cost per commit (if you paste your git log coun

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