> If i'm doing this a hundred thousand times a day it is difficult to price this in

When you’re doing this 100K times per day you get an extremely good idea of what it costs. You also have all the tools to see when something starts changing quickly.

This change is for Claude Code the harness. If you’re using the API at scale and paying full price then you get exactly what you put into the request.

No, those doing this 100k times a day have very good data on this, good estimators and modeling. And the API has various knobs to change and evals will give you actionable data.