Claude seems to waste a lot of tokens internally bickering with itself. As much as organizations are optimizing spend, Claude's product guidance seems to be doing everything to fight against that headwind. When operating in a capped cost environment, engineers will simply get less use out of it.
replyBoris from the team here. The classifier is free — we do not charge for safety features as a principle.
replyIs this new? I remember something in the UI saying Auto mode uses x% more tokens
replyYes, it's in the article:
reply> The auto mode classifier uses a small number of extra tokens per tool call, and we're no longer charging Claude Code users on Pro, Max, and Team plans for that classifier overhead, effective today
That’s good to know, thank you.
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replyThe classifier runs Sonnet so I doubt it contributes too much.
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