I installed paperclip then I did test hire and 757K tokens gone

[oakkartapp]

Hi,
today i installed paperclip and it gave first task to test, and I did hire a agent and its showing 784K tokens Anthropic API token consumed, how is this possible. I didnt even put my Anthropic API
I installed it through claude code, I checked with claude code it says, it gave below reply:

It means the CEO agent has already run and used 757,800 tokens of Claude Sonnet through your Anthropic API key.

Breaking it down:

$0.00 on Paperclip's side — Paperclip itself is free/open source, it charges nothing
"Billed through Anthropic" — the actual token cost goes directly to your Anthropic account, not through Paperclip
757.8k tokens — that's how much Claude was used by the CEO agent working on OAK-1
What this means practically:
The CEO agent already ran successfully (good news!)
Check your Anthropic Console usage dashboard to see the actual dollar cost — at Sonnet pricing (~$3/MTok input, ~$15/MTok output) that's roughly $2–5 depending on input/output split.

just for testing we have to put so much, then how much it will cost if we have to complete project, it will be costler then hiring a person.

[steingran]

Switch to using OpenAI instead of Anthropic, more cost-effective for agentic work

[romanshumy]

OpenRouter --> DeepSeek V4 Pro for C-Suite, DeepSeek V4 Flash for the rest.

[MinionsLabs]

Did you read the whole documentation of Paperclip? It is not that much, very precise and enlightnening... This is not a plug and play product if do not know what to do wit it...