With the introduction of Opus 4.6 my bills went through the roof. I never burned budgets so fast with so few prompts since then.

I more and more use Codex, because token usage is a blackbox and I think that we will see the next couple of month the usual three tier model evolving: free, normal, luxury.

2027 will be the year of token regulation by administrations worldwide. Until then take care for being ripped of at the luxury level.