Usage & cost
Tiered models keep spend low while Opus gatekeeps quality — cheap workers do the volume, Opus plans, verifies, and judges.
Balanced
Total spend
$1.80
7 runs all-time
Agent runs
7
across the pipeline
Tokens
137k
125k in · 12k out
Spend today
$2.41
cap $8/day · 30% used
Est. savings vs all-Opus
$1.00
36% cheaper than Opus-only
You spent $1.80 instead of $2.80 — 36% saved by routing workers to cheaper models.
Opus only runs the oversight roles (plan, verify, review, judge). Everything else routes to GLM/Haiku workers, so quality stays gatekept while spend drops.
Spend by tier
Most volume runs on cheap workers; Opus oversight is a small slice of cost.
Advancedclaude-opus-4-8
7 runs137k tok$1.80100%
Opus oversight — plan, verify, review, judge
Spend by model
| Model | Runs | Tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| claude-opus-4-8 | 7 | 137k | $1.80 |
Spend by stage
QA Swarm1 runs$0.74
Fix2 runs$0.51
Root Cause2 runs$0.35
Verify1 runs$0.12
Plan1 runs$0.08