Claude Code Pricing: Smart AI Billing Guide
At its heart, Claude's pricing works on a simple pay-as-you-go system. Instead of a flat monthly fee, you pay for what you use, and that usage is measured in 'tokens'—which are basically small pieces of text or code. You get billed for both the code you send to the model (input) and the code it generates for you (output), with the price changing depending on which Claude model you're using.
How The Token-Based Pricing Really Works
Think of tokens as the currency for AI models. Every bit of co
