I Audited 3 Months of Claude Code Billing — Most Community Cost-Saving Tips Don''t Work

Originally published at recca0120.github.io This past week, chasing a vague "quota burns faster lately" feeling, I scanned three months of my own Claude Code logs. ~\$127K equivalent cost, 127K turns, four models, hundreds of sessions. The uncomfortable finding: the cost-saving tips floating around on Reddit / HN / Twitter mostly don't survive real data. "Sessions are too long, run /clear ," "too many skills, prune them," "MCP servers should be lean" — these all sound right. But against three mo