- USD per year.
- Yearly cost is so much easier to understand than hourly.
- Costs which are charged by the event (usually per million) are more easily understood as the cost of one event per second sustained for a year.
- The always free allowances are significant: Lambda is 24 requests per minute or 9, 1GB processes per minute whichever is reached first.
A way to organise long-running work with Claude Code so that sessions are disposable and the durable state lives in git, and so that one session can spawn focused helper sessions in their own terminal windows. Two independent ideas — adopt either alone:
- Strands — a curated, git-backed "memory bank" for a recurring workstream, so a fresh session picks up exactly where the last left off.
- Forkterms — forking the current session into its own terminal window