CoinWorld News, a SemiAnalysis report shows that internal large model token spending has accounted for 30% of total employee salaries, with per capita monthly consumption of nearly 5 billion tokens, and core contributors consuming over 100 billion tokens per month.

The sharp drop in actual usage costs is the key to reshaping the unit economics of the professional services industry.
Although the official price of Opus 4.7 is as high as $5 per million tokens for input and $25 per million tokens for output, due to the agent tasks having a 300:1 input-to-output ratio and over 90% prompt cache hit rate, the actual blended token cost is only $0.99 per million.
The combined acceleration of software and hardware is further compressing generation costs.