Sure but how? Still wondering more specifically what you're doing. And 3-5k is unfortunately my entire month's salary

I'm developing an open source coding agent (RA.Aid).

I'm using RA.Aid to develop itself (dogfooding,) so I'm constantly running the coding agent.

That cost is my peak cost, not average.

It's easy to scale back costs to 1/10 the cost and still get 90% of the quality. Basically that means using models like gemini 2.5 pro or Deepseek v3 (even cheaper) rather than expensive models like sonnet 3.7 and o3.