OP 24 June, 2026 - 11:41 PM
Scammers Profile Link: https://cracked.st/MrPoisonLab
Sales Thread: https://cracked.st/Thread-%E2%9C%85-CLAU...-ANTHROPIC
Amount or Item(s) Scammed: $4.32
Screenshots of Communication: 1. https://ibb.co/XrcmRvYK , 2. https://ibb.co/9kZPDb2N 3. https://ibb.co/273LGkc1 , 4. https://ibb.co/Y7m3xnTj
Crypto address for a refund: Will provide to seller directly.
Additional Information: The seller states that his API is 93% cheaper than Claude which is just not true. He never states anywhere on his website or in his thread that his token system is completely different than Claudes, and that its inflated by 350x - 700x. When I tested his API, it was actually 3x more expensive than it would be officially via Claude API. Already posted about it in different thread, but will repost it here with all the screenshots:
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So I tested it out as seller wanted and used exactly one prompt. Here is how it went. The prompt involved creating a skeleton for a website that includes a database and login functionality.
Claude ran for exactly 12 minutes and 16 seconds and has eaten around ~50k tokens (original Claude tokens) <- https://ibb.co/VcTcYHw5
Unfortunately, I didn't get the screenshot exactly when it ended since it disappeared, but I got one at ~6 minutes showing 25k tokens. <- https://ibb.co/4RBz0wyR
My input was barely any tokens, since it was just a single message with no history, so let's calculate!
1M tokens output on Opus 4.8 is $25, which would make ~50k tokens be around $1.25 + whatever the input was, but that was maybe a few pennies, if even that.
Now about the guy that states to provide a 93% discount on the Claude API, it was 4,548,736 tokens, which is $3.93, since I paid $4.32 for 5M tokens. <- https://ibb.co/VYTtFmRN
So where is the discount? How is it 3 TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE LMAO!!! I thought the more Claude works on it, the more caches it or whatever, no? Only small prompts would be losing the discount, right? That's what you said?
Let's see the "requests" it was sending. <- 1. https://ibb.co/YBQ0kDRx , 2. https://ibb.co/bhPp6NQ
Every minute it literally took upwards of 80K tokens of input out of me. Even though I wasn't prompting anything, Claude was just working.
Also the output that we can see on those two screenshots is the correct one that Claude actually spends on output, so why is there a literal "input fee" every minute that keeps on increasing?
It started at 40k each minute until it literally got to 80k, taking in total around ~4.5m tokens just to finish one task, lol.
(What I mean about INPUT, is in the two screenshots, you can see the tokens it eats on INPUT, which is users prompts, and you can see the time next to it, its unrealistic for me to spend so many INPUT tokens every minute, sometimes few seconds)
So, @MrPoisonLab , how is it possible that buying tokens through Claude officially would be over 75% cheaper than buying them from you? I thought it was 93% off, right?
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Would also like to see sellers threads taken down. His API is literally 3x more expensive than officially via Claude API, and yet he is promoting it as 93% off.
Sales Thread: https://cracked.st/Thread-%E2%9C%85-CLAU...-ANTHROPIC
Amount or Item(s) Scammed: $4.32
Screenshots of Communication: 1. https://ibb.co/XrcmRvYK , 2. https://ibb.co/9kZPDb2N 3. https://ibb.co/273LGkc1 , 4. https://ibb.co/Y7m3xnTj
Crypto address for a refund: Will provide to seller directly.
Additional Information: The seller states that his API is 93% cheaper than Claude which is just not true. He never states anywhere on his website or in his thread that his token system is completely different than Claudes, and that its inflated by 350x - 700x. When I tested his API, it was actually 3x more expensive than it would be officially via Claude API. Already posted about it in different thread, but will repost it here with all the screenshots:
""
So I tested it out as seller wanted and used exactly one prompt. Here is how it went. The prompt involved creating a skeleton for a website that includes a database and login functionality.
Claude ran for exactly 12 minutes and 16 seconds and has eaten around ~50k tokens (original Claude tokens) <- https://ibb.co/VcTcYHw5
Unfortunately, I didn't get the screenshot exactly when it ended since it disappeared, but I got one at ~6 minutes showing 25k tokens. <- https://ibb.co/4RBz0wyR
My input was barely any tokens, since it was just a single message with no history, so let's calculate!
1M tokens output on Opus 4.8 is $25, which would make ~50k tokens be around $1.25 + whatever the input was, but that was maybe a few pennies, if even that.
Now about the guy that states to provide a 93% discount on the Claude API, it was 4,548,736 tokens, which is $3.93, since I paid $4.32 for 5M tokens. <- https://ibb.co/VYTtFmRN
So where is the discount? How is it 3 TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE LMAO!!! I thought the more Claude works on it, the more caches it or whatever, no? Only small prompts would be losing the discount, right? That's what you said?
Let's see the "requests" it was sending. <- 1. https://ibb.co/YBQ0kDRx , 2. https://ibb.co/bhPp6NQ
Every minute it literally took upwards of 80K tokens of input out of me. Even though I wasn't prompting anything, Claude was just working.
Also the output that we can see on those two screenshots is the correct one that Claude actually spends on output, so why is there a literal "input fee" every minute that keeps on increasing?
It started at 40k each minute until it literally got to 80k, taking in total around ~4.5m tokens just to finish one task, lol.
(What I mean about INPUT, is in the two screenshots, you can see the tokens it eats on INPUT, which is users prompts, and you can see the time next to it, its unrealistic for me to spend so many INPUT tokens every minute, sometimes few seconds)
So, @
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Would also like to see sellers threads taken down. His API is literally 3x more expensive than officially via Claude API, and yet he is promoting it as 93% off.
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