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Do you use AI to build your SaaS? If so, how much do you spend a month?

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Honest question, not a survey for a startup.

I’ve been shipping with Claude Code almost daily for about a year now, first for a client’s platform (sports app, ~1M users) and now for my own stuff. Rough numbers on my side: the Claude Max plan plus API usage for the agent runs comes to somewhere between $200 and $400 a month depending on how many tickets I push through it. That’s more than my hosting, which still feels weird to say.

What I’m curious about from people actually running a SaaS:

  1. Which tools are you paying for (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, something else)?
  2. Monthly spend, roughly?
  3. Does it actually replace dev hours for you, or is it mostly autocomplete with extra steps?
  4. Has the spend gone up or down over the last 6 months?
  5. Rough monthly revenue, so we can see what the spend is actually funding (edit: added this one, good call from u/sudo-maxime)

I’ll put together the numbers from the replies in a comment if enough people answer.