I analyzed 187 Claude Code sessions. $6,744 worth of tokens. Here's where they actually went.
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I've been using Claude Code heavily for the past month. Building trading bots, automation tools, side projects. I knew I was burning through tokens but never looked at the numbers. So I built a small CLI to parse my local session data. The result: 187 sessions. 3.3 billion tokens. $6,744 equivalent API cost. I'm on Max, so this is equivalent API cost, not what I actually paid. But the token patterns are what matter here. 97% of my tokens were something I couldn't control That was