every time we talk about how much companies are spending on LLMs per engineer we get a bunch of replies "wdym claude max is just $200" when rolling out coding tools to a real team companies use a proper enterprise control plane attached to a yearly contract these all have a pay per use component (with discounts) so yes it's not completely extraordinary to see a $2000 bill for a single dev per month and no just because $2000 is less than the salary doesn't mean it's automatically worth it eventually companies will scrutinize these numbers and understand if they're actually seeing proportional ROI