{
  "id": 690076,
  "title": "One pass of my eval bills $9.14 on the API and $0 through the CLI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/one-pass-of-my-eval-bills-9-14-on-the-api-and-0-through-the-cli",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-12T18:52:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/dylanmerigaud/one-pass-of-my-eval-bills-914-on-the-api-and-0-through-the-cli-3eof"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}