$1500 bandwidth bill in 1 day, need help

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• itzsenu Member

  September 5

  @tange Hope you're doing well.

  
• Andreix Host Rep, Veteran

  September 5

  There's still hope...

  https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a9c5fa674a08191900567adff110fec
• bdspice Member

  September 5

  @TimboJones said:

  @bdspice said:
  that remind me A corporate client accidentally incurred a $500 million token bill on Anthropic's Claude AI in a single month. So Set capping is essential.

  $500 million in a month accidentally? Me thinks you're hallucinating.

  try googling this phase "500m dollar claude"
• TimboJones Member

  September 5

  @bdspice said:

  @TimboJones said:

  @bdspice said:
  that remind me A corporate client accidentally incurred a $500 million token bill on Anthropic's Claude AI in a single month. So Set capping is essential.

  $500 million in a month accidentally? Me thinks you're hallucinating.

  try googling this phase "500m dollar claude"

  I did. It upsets me when this many people are this gullible. Doesn't pass any sanity check. Anonymous? Fucking poor journalism.

  The best comment,

  lol, no. Just reason through this. If ONE single customer could "accidentally" spend half a billion, when Anthropic's run rate in Feb-2026 was $12B/year... so one customer == 1/24th of it's total for the whole fucking year?!!! LOL

  Are you kidding me? There isn't that much slack in GPU availability to handle some mythical customer's "accidental" half-billion dollar charge.

  LOL. No, this is some stupid luddite wailing against the wind

  Also, nothing was identified as accidentally accrued. If you go out on the town and eat and drink whatever you want, you didn't accidentally run up a $5k bill. Nothing about the expected budget or how the cost was X above expectations, etc. In other words, not journalism, not even a blog worthy story.