i've gotten months of usage out of openai and claude where i seeded each with only $5

but if you use an agent and it tries to include a 500kb json file, yeah, you will light cash on fire

(this happened to me today but the rate limit bright it to my attention.)

Fortunately Ai companies are not (currently) like AWS - you can only burn as much money as you have on account.

For brief, low context interactions, it is crazy how far your money goes.