Chris Arter

@arter.dev

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 2X Girl Dad & Husband 💻 Software Engineer 🎨 #Laravel Artisan 🏁 Miata Enthusiast Interests: Laravel + Product ideas + Miatas + Personal Growth I write at https://arter.dev 📍 Raleigh, NC 🇺🇸

Ben afflec having enough of Claude’s shit.
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Cost comparison table showing six AI coding setups ranked by monthly cost at 22 working days. Claude Code Max subscription is $200/month flat with no per-day metering. ▎ Kimi 2.6 orchestrator paired with DeepSeek V3.1 executor costs $83.70 per day and $1,841 per month. Kimi 2.6 with Qwen3 Coder 480B executor costs $91.26 per day and ▎ $2,008 per month. Kimi 2.6 with DeepSeek V3.2 Exp executor costs $96.32 per day and $2,119 per month. Kimi 2.6 used alone with no executor handoff costs $154.08 per ▎ day and $3,390 per month. Claude API at list price for the current Opus/Sonnet/Haiku mix costs $261.63 per day and $5,756 per month. The subscription is roughly 9 to ▎ 29 times cheaper than every metered option at this usage volume.
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