TL;DR My Claude Code invoice in March was $312.40. In April it's projected under $20. I didn't swap models, self-host, or downgrade quality. The trick is a thin, Anthropic-compatible BYOK (bring-your-own-key) proxy that sits between your client and api.anthropic.com. One-line SDK change: baseURL: "https://aiusage.ai/v1". That's the whole migration. If you want the tool, it's aiusage.ai. If you
How I cut my Claude Code bill 20 with a BYOK proxy (and what I learned about token economics)
patl4588·Dev.to··1 min read
D
Continue reading on Dev.to
This article was sourced from Dev.to's RSS feed. Visit the original for the complete story.