== My Annual AI Bill (2025 Edition) == If we treat AI as a daily utility like water and electricity, here’s the real cost I paid for it in 2025: Expenses ChatGPT: 2400 USD Claude: 480 USD Google AI Pro: 120 USD OpenAI Developer Platform: 50 USD Grok is indirectly paid for (via X subscription), so it’s not included. Total ~3050 USD Token Consumption OpenAI Developer Platform Token Usage: 1.25 billion (mainly used on http://newshacker.me) (primarily gpt-5-mini) Codex Cli Usage: 760 million (lost a lot of data) (primarily gpt-5.2) Claude Code Usage: almost all data lost Total >>2 billion Just jotting this down here. Let’s see what this bill looks like this time next year.