title: Why your Claude API bill is 3x what it should be and how to fix it published: true description: I audited a friend's $4,200/month Claude bill. $2,900 of it was waste — split across three patterns most LLM teams have. Here's the audit and the ...

Claude Code's ANTHROPICBASEURL env var lets you redirect every request to any compatible backend in one shell line. Almost no one does it, but it unlocks caching, rate-limit pooling, multi-vendor routing, audit logging, and billing routing without re...