Running Claude as a code-review bot sounds cheap. $640/month later, it isn't.
Run the free audit →Bot fires on file-open, on comment, on push, on re-request — generating the same review multiple times. Anxiety pricing.
Three patterns dominate the waste on this workload: (1) context that gets re-sent on every request; (2) retry loops on parse failures or validation errors; (3) agent/reviewer chains where intermediate steps re-read content they already processed. AIUsage's audit identifies which of the three is eating your bill.
Across six audited Claude workloads, the measured savings were 76–84% on the same prompts, blind A/B tested. see the verified case →
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