One pass of my eval bills $9.14 on the API and $0 through the CLI
One pass of my board eval bills $9.14 on the Anthropic API. Through Claude Code it bills $0. Same model, claude-opus-4-8. That is 27 calls, and it is not an estimate. The CLI prints a total_cost_usd in its envelope: what the run would have cost on the API. It bills the subscription instead, so the number is a receipt for money nobody spent. The switch fixed something better than the bill Running…
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