What does it cost in tokens/dollars to build these kinds of tools with Claude, and is Claude Max sufficient or do you need Enterprise?

One member said he only uses a Claude Max account (about $200/month) and has never hit the usage limit building all his tools; using an agent that calls the API is usage-based but very cheap (e.g., editing an invoice costs about a penny). Another member noted their firm is looking into Claude Enterprise for security reasons, but pointed out Enterprise is pay-as-you-go rather than an allocated token plan, which feels riskier for a business (referencing stories of huge token overage bills) though usage limits can be set. The first member shared his own usage dashboard: about 200-270 million tokens used last month at roughly $25/million, totaling a couple thousand dollars, for building around 50 tools — he argued this isn't material because accountants aren't building complex codebases; the huge token-cost horror stories come from companies with massive codebases where any agent action is expensive. Another member added that inefficient prompting (not planning ahead, just trial-and-error typing "doesn't work") wastes tokens, reinforcing the value of planning builds out in advance.