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Claude Token Costs Explained - Interactive Slides

Watch a narrated slide walkthrough of Claude token costs, Opus 4.7 pricing, prompt caching, Claude Code context, MCP overhead, and thinking tokens.

This slide deck turns the article into a guided walkthrough with narration, concise visuals, code examples, and a cost-control checklist.

Claude token cost stack diagram

Slide Outline

  1. Claude API vs Claude Code vs claude.ai
  2. The token cost formula
  3. Current Claude API pricing snapshot
  4. Opus 4.7 tokenizer changes
  5. Claude Code project context
  6. CLAUDE.md and skills strategy
  7. MCP deferred tool definitions
  8. Conversation history growth
  9. Thinking tokens billed as output
  10. Prompt caching break-even
  11. API usage object
  12. Claude Code slash commands
  13. Cost-control playbook

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